Duff v. Wynkoop
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Forest county: No. 108, of October and November Term 1873. This was an action of ejectment, brought May 17th 1866, by Samuel Duff against L. C. Wynkoop, James W. Guthrie, Milton Wynkoop and W. S. Wynkoop, for six hundred acres of land, known as the “ Nelson Strong” tract. John Heath was afterwards admitted as a co-defendant.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Forest county: No. 108, of October and November Term 1873. This was an action of ejectment, brought May 17th 1866, by Samuel Duff against L. C. Wynkoop, James W. Guthrie, Milton Wynkoop and W. S. Wynkoop, for six hundred acres of land, known as the “ Nelson Strong” tract. John Heath was afterwards admitted as a co-defendant. The case was tried September 27th 1870, before Campbell, P. J. The plaintiff gave in evidence a judgment, Thomas Mellon, for the use of Samuel Duff, against James W. Guthrie and Jacob McFadden, entered in the Court of Common Pleas of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, January 5th 1874, by
Mbrcur, J. —
The plaintiff claimed title to the land in question, first under a treasurer’s sale and deed in 1862, and secondly under a sheriff’s sale made upon a judgment in 1863.
The fifth and sixth assignments of error relate to the execution and acknowledgment of the treasurer’s deed. The deed purported to have been signed by the treasurer. It was duly acknowledged by him in the Court of Common Pleas of the- proper county, and so certified on the face of the deed by the prothonotary, under the seal of the court. The defendants gave…
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