Canon v. Campbell
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Fayette county. This was an ejectment by Hugh Campbell, in trust for A. H. Campbell, against James F. Canon, for a house and lot of ground in Uniontown, to enforce the payment of a balance of unpaid purchase-money. On the 4th January 1856, Hugh Campbell, the vendor, obtained a judgment against James F. Canon, the vendee, for $373.38, the amount of unpaid purchase-money due to him, under the articles of agreement for the sale of the land..
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Error to the Common Pleas of Fayette county. This was an ejectment by Hugh Campbell, in trust for A. H. Campbell, against James F. Canon, for a house and lot of ground in Uniontown, to enforce the payment of a balance of unpaid purchase-money. On the 4th January 1856, Hugh Campbell, the vendor, obtained a judgment against James F. Canon, the vendee, for $373.38, the amount of unpaid purchase-money due to him, under the articles of agreement for the sale of the land.. And on the 13th January 1855, he filed in the prothonotary's office, a deed conveying the premises to the vendee, dated the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Thompson, J.
It does not benefit the law to discuss or restate principles so well settled with us, as those involved in the main point in this ease. The facts in it do not alter or modify the principles of the cases cited and relied on by the learned judge of the Common Pleas; and for the satisfactory views of the law, so accurately and clearly expressed by him, in his charge to the jury, we dismiss the first and second assignments of error.
As to the assignment of error in striking out the name of John Canon, who had previously been admitted as…
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