Workman v. Guthrie
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas- of Clarion county. This was an action of ejectment by William B. Workman and James C. Workman against James W. Guthrie and others, to recover the two undivided third parts of seven hundred acres of land in Clarion county.
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Error to the Common Pleas- of Clarion county. This was an action of ejectment by William B. Workman and James C. Workman against James W. Guthrie and others, to recover the two undivided third parts of seven hundred acres of land in Clarion county. James Hannegan was the owner in fee of the land, and on the 4th June, 1831, by articles of agreement sold the same to Samuel Walters in fee for the sum of $654. Walters, on the 10th of September, 1832, assigned his interest in the land to William B. Workman, James C. Workman, and Edmund Workman, for the sum of $700. The Workmans entered into…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Woodward, J.
In considering this case it is very material to bear constantly in mind that the legal title to the premises in controversy was never in the plaintiffs.
James Hannegan, in whom the title had vested, entered into articles of agreement on the 4th of June, 1831, for the sale of it to Samuel Walters, who, on the 10th of September, 1832, assigned the articles to the plaintiffs and their brother, Edmund Workman, as tenants in common, in consideration of $700. Walters paid Hannegan, and the Workmans paid Walters the stipulated purchase-money, and…
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