Sallada v. Mock

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Kephart,

We said, when this case was here before, in an opinion by Mr. Justice Schaffer, 271 Pa. 212, that Mary Ann Snyder’s interest in the property was divested by a sheriff’s sale; by remaining in possession she did so without claim of right so far as the purchaser, plaintiff’s predecessor, was concerned. She was a sister of plaintiff’s ancestor, and Hattie Mock was a niece. Nothing was done prior to this sister’s death to establish a hostile possession sufficient to start the running of the statute on which to predicate title by adverse possession, and, until the…