Atkinson v. Washington & Jefferson College

POEEENBARGER, JüDGE:

John H. Atkinson, the appellant, held a lien by deed of trust upon the property of the American Fire Clay Company in Hancock County, for a debt amounting to something oyer six thousand dollars, prior to which another lien on the same property was held by a Mrs. Donaldson for something over two thousand dollars, and, to enable his debtor to borrow ten thousand dollars from the Washington and Jefferson College, a Penns3dvania corporation, with which to pay, among other things, the debt due Mrs. Donaldson, he released his lien in the year 1890; and the Washington and…