Ludwig's Estate
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 94, October Term, 1920, by Herbert B. Green from decree of O. O. Berks County, vacating and setting aside a previous order and confirmation of sale and awarding an order of resale in the estate of Amanda Ludwig, deceased. Petition to vacate and set aside an order of sale. Before Schaeffer, P. J. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case.
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Appeal, No. 94, October Term, 1920, by Herbert B. Green from decree of O. O. Berks County, vacating and setting aside a previous order and confirmation of sale and awarding an order of resale in the estate of Amanda Ludwig, deceased. Petition to vacate and set aside an order of sale. Before Schaeffer, P. J. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. The court made the following order: “And now, to wit: April 26,1919, the above rule having come on for final hearing, and the court having heard the proofs and allegation of the parties after due consideration, do hereby make the rule…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Keller, J.,
The appellant agreed to purchase certain real estate from the heirs of Mary Amanda Ludwig, deceased, for the sum of $3,010, and paid $301 down money to their attorney. Subsequently it developed that by reason of the lunacy of the husband of one of the heirs a good title could not thus be conveyed, and all the heirs then joined *252in a petition to the orphans’ court praying for an order ratifying and confirming the sale thus made and directing the administrators of said decedent as trustees to convey the said premises to the appellant on or before April 1,1918, upon payment…
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