Heckerman v. Hummel
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Daivphin county. This was an action of covenant brought by Mary Hummel against George Heckerman, to recover certain arrears of ground-rent, which, as she alleged, were charged on twro lots of ground, Nos. 116, 116, in Hummelstown, Dauphin county. The declaration was in covenant, and the plea nil debet.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Daivphin county. This was an action of covenant brought by Mary Hummel against George Heckerman, to recover certain arrears of ground-rent, which, as she alleged, were charged on twro lots of ground, Nos. 116, 116, in Hummelstown, Dauphin county. The declaration was in covenant, and the plea nil debet. The plaintiff gave in evidence a patent to Valentine Kloninger, dated 6th November, 1752; a judgment against Kloninger, in 1755, for ¿6300, executions and a sheriff’s sale; and a deed from T. Pugh, sheriff, to T. Willing, acknowledged 5th May, 1758, for 151 acres; a…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court, filed was delivered by
Lewis, J.
This was an action of covenant brought by Mary Hummel, the widow of David Hummel, deceased, to recover arrearages of ground-rent charged upon lots numbered 115 and 116 in Ilummelstown. The town was laid out about the year 1763, by Frederick Hummel. Upon his death, in 1779, “the plantation and the town” were claimed under his will by his two sons, David and Frederick; and upon a partition, made by agreement between them in 1789, the lots in question were set apart to David Hummel, who died in 1793, having devised the ground-rents to his…
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