Wigton & Brooks's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the decree of the Common Pleas of Bucks county, distributing the proceeds of the sale of the real estate of William Beek. The property sold consisted of twenty-five acres of land, situate in Doylestown township.
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Appeal from the decree of the Common Pleas of Bucks county, distributing the proceeds of the sale of the real estate of William Beek. The property sold consisted of twenty-five acres of land, situate in Doylestown township. About the 1st of April, 1855, Beek commenced the erection of a large building forty feet high, two hundred and fifty feet long, with two wings of fifty feet square each, on the same land, the buildings and grounds being designed for holding agricultural and other public exhibitions. The grounds were graded and enclosed with a high, tight board fence, with entrances and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Lewis, 0. J.
This ease falls within the principle settled in the
Presbyterian Church v. Stetler, 2 Casey 246. The decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks county is affirmed for the reasons given by the learned president of that court.
Decree of distribution affirmed.
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