Weaver v. Brenner
Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Cambria County
No. 9 October Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 251 June Term 1888, C. P. On April 25, 1888, Jacob J. Weaver brought ejectment against John Brenner, for a parcel of land in Summerhill township, containing fifty acres, more or less. On July 1, 1889, after a trial before arbitrators and an appeal from the award, Amos Plummer, committee in lunacy of the defendant, appeared, and filed a plea of not guilty as to part of the land and a disclaimer as to another part.
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No. 9 October Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 251 June Term 1888, C. P. On April 25, 1888, Jacob J. Weaver brought ejectment against John Brenner, for a parcel of land in Summerhill township, containing fifty acres, more or less. On July 1, 1889, after a trial before arbitrators and an appeal from the award, Amos Plummer, committee in lunacy of the defendant, appeared, and filed a plea of not guilty as to part of the land and a disclaimer as to another part. At the trial, on August 26,1889, the plaintiff showed title to the land in dispute by a sheriff’s sale thereof in two parcels, on…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice McCollum :
A contract was entered into on the twenty-fourth of August, 1882, between Jacob J. Weaver and John Brenner, by which *304the former agreed to sell, and the latter to buy, twenty-four acres of land in Summerhill township, Cambria county, for the sum of 1326.50, payable as follows: one hundred dollars, April 1, 1883; one hundred dollars, April 1, 1884; and the balance April 1, 1885. Brenner immediately took possession of the land, and continued in the occupancy and use of it, but neglected to pay the purchase money. On the sixteenth of November, 1886, Weaver brought an…
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