Adams v. Bleakley
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR TO THE COURT OE COMMON PLEAS OE VENANGO COUNTY. No. 81 October Term 1886, Snp. Ct.; court below, No. 40 January Term 1885, C. P. This was an ejectment by W. J. Bleakley against Ann E. Adams, to recover an inlot in the city of Franklin, on which were a two-story dwelling and other buildings, brought on January 6, 1885. On April 27, 1885, Simpson Horner was added as a defendant.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OE COMMON PLEAS OE VENANGO COUNTY. No. 81 October Term 1886, Snp. Ct.; court below, No. 40 January Term 1885, C. P. This was an ejectment by W. J. Bleakley against Ann E. Adams, to recover an inlot in the city of Franklin, on which were a two-story dwelling and other buildings, brought on January 6, 1885. On April 27, 1885, Simpson Horner was added as a defendant. The record title of the property in dispute accrued to the respective parties to the suit as follows: On April 19, 1885, Josiah Adams, the husband of Ann E. Adams, executed to Thomas Daft, his father-in-law, with…
1Opinion of the Court
*292Opinion,
Me. Justice Williams :
Ann E. Adams, the defendant below, claimed title to the lot of land in controversy in this case, under a deed made to her on the 6th March, 1865, by Charles H. Raymond. She alleged that the consideration money was paid by her and was derived wholly from her own separate estate. She also claimed to hold any title which her husband, Josiah Adams, acquired under the deed from Raymond by means of a sheriff’s sale of the lot as his property, which had been made in 1872 upon a judgment against him and in favor of Simpson Horner.
Bleakley, the plaintiff below, acquired…
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