Holmes' Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Court of Cotfimon Pleas No. 2 of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term, 1884, No. 134. This was an appeal by 'John G. Holmes from a decree of the said court, dismissing his exceptions to and confirming the report of a Master appointed to make distribution of the proceeds of certain real estate, sold under proceedings in partition, in equity, wherein the .First National Bank of Birmingham was complainant and John G. Holmes and others were defendants.
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Appeal from the Court of Cotfimon Pleas No. 2 of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term, 1884, No. 134. This was an appeal by 'John G. Holmes from a decree of the said court, dismissing his exceptions to and confirming the report of a Master appointed to make distribution of the proceeds of certain real estate, sold under proceedings in partition, in equity, wherein the .First National Bank of Birmingham was complainant and John G. Holmes and others were defendants. The Master found the following facts: On Septémbér 1st, 1877, the real estate of Williamlhmsen. deceased, was sold by…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Mekcub
This is a case of the distribution of a fund produced by a Master’s sale of the l’eal estate of C. Ihmsen, Jr. The contention is, as to the time when he acquired an estate in the land, which would be bound by the lien of a judgment entered against him.
The controlling facts are these: He bought the property at a sale, made on the 1st of September, 1877, by the executrix of Wm. Ihmsen, deceased, under an order of the Orphans’ Court, for the payment of debts. The order was returnable on the 15th of the same month and was then duly returned. On or before that day he paid the whole amount of his…
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