Alter v. Logan Trust Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Jones,

This is an appeal from a judgment of compulsory nonsuit entered in an action of assumpsit. The plaintiff sued to recover damages for the defendants’ breach of an alleged oral agreement said to confer upon the plaintiff a right of redemption to a certain piece of real estate which one of the defendants had acquired at-a sheriff’s sale upon an execution issued on an unpaid judgment against the plaintiff in favor of the same defendant.

On May 16, 1930, W. Riley Alter, the plaintiff,-was the owner of two improved tracts of land in the city of New Kensington,…