Dresher v. Allentown Water Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh county. This was an action of ejectment, commenced August 6th 1862, by Nathan Dresher and Lesher Trexler against The Allentown Water Company, John Blank, Joseph Weaver and Lena Grim, for a tract of land formerly the estate of which Abraham Worman, Sr., died seised. The decedent left no widow, but left two children and two grandchildren, children of a deceased child.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh county. This was an action of ejectment, commenced August 6th 1862, by Nathan Dresher and Lesher Trexler against The Allentown Water Company, John Blank, Joseph Weaver and Lena Grim, for a tract of land formerly the estate of which Abraham Worman, Sr., died seised. The decedent left no widow, but left two children and two grandchildren, children of a deceased child. On the 24th of November 1846, letters of administration on his estate were issued, and on the 5th of February 1847, on the petition of Abraham Worman, Jr., the eldest son of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, May 15th 1866, by
Strong, J.
The defendants claim title to the land in contro*228versy under an Orphans’ Court sale for the payment of the debts of Abraham Worman, Sr., deceased. The sale was ordered on the 21st of September 1848, regularly made and confirmed on the 15th of January 1849, and in the next following May a deed was made to the purchaser by the administrator of the decedent.
It is conceded that the decedent died seised of this land, that the debts, to enable the payment of which the sale was ordered, were liens at the time of the order, and that…
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