Union Trust Co. v. Cain
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 231, by plaintiff, from judgment of O. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co., April T., 1902, No. 612, on verdict for defendant non obstante veredicto in case of the Union Trust Company of Pittsburg, administrator of Johanna Montgomery, deceased, v. William H. Cain and Mary Eliza Cain, his wife, with notice to James D. Hailman and W. A. Dickey, terre-tenants. Scire facias sur mortgage. Rule for judgment for defendant non obstante veredicto.
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Appeal, No. 231, by plaintiff, from judgment of O. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co., April T., 1902, No. 612, on verdict for defendant non obstante veredicto in case of the Union Trust Company of Pittsburg, administrator of Johanna Montgomery, deceased, v. William H. Cain and Mary Eliza Cain, his wife, with notice to James D. Hailman and W. A. Dickey, terre-tenants. Scire facias sur mortgage. Rule for judgment for defendant non obstante veredicto. Rodgers, J., filed the following opinion: Johanna Montgomery was formerly the owner of the mortgaged premises described in the scire facias. On June 6,1892,…
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Beaver, J.,
The appellant endeavored to recover from the terre-tenants in this case the arrearages of interest upon a mortgage given by Cain and wife to Johanna Montgomery, the decedent, for purchase money of a lot sold by McCrickart, the attorney in fact of Mrs. Montgomery. The mortgage taken for the purchase money was assigned by McCrickart to Pittsburg Lodge 337, I. O. O. F. McCrickart acted as attorney in fact for Mrs. Montgomery, under a special power of attorney, authorizing him to sell and convey the property in question. His power to sell' and to take a mortgage for the…
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