Pyles v. Brown
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 144, Oct. T., 1898, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. No. 3, Allegheny Co., May T., 1897, No. 709, on verdict for defendant. Ejectment for a lot of ground in the city of Pittsburg. Before Porter, J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court gave binding instructions for defendant. Verdict and judgment for defendant. Error assigned was the instruction of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Fell,
The appellant acquired title to the lot for which ejectment was brought by sheriff’s sale under proceedings on a purchase money mortgage given by Holland to Kaufman, dated May 19, 1892, assigned by Kaufman to Thos. Brown, and recorded May 24, 1892. No deed from Kaufman to Holland was ever recorded, and there was no direct evidence that a'deed had ever been executed and delivered. June 1,1892, Kaufman executed and delivered a deed for the same lot to Hughes, who conveyed to C. E. Williams, who conveyed to B. M. Williams, who on October 14, 1895, executed a mortgage…
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