Robinson v. Glancy
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to tbe Court of Common Pleas of Cumberland county: No. 61, to May Term 1871. Ejectment, in which Margaret Glancy and Esther Glancy were plaintiffs, and Lewis Robinson and Ellen bis wife were defendants.
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Error to tbe Court of Common Pleas of Cumberland county: No. 61, to May Term 1871. Ejectment, in which Margaret Glancy and Esther Glancy were plaintiffs, and Lewis Robinson and Ellen bis wife were defendants. This was a case stated in which the following facts appeared:— William Glancy died intestate, leaving a widow Elizabeth, since dead, and four children, to wit: Elizabeth, married to Adam Peffer, Hester Glancy and Margaret Glancy, and Ellen, now married to Lewis Robinson. At the time of his death William Glancy was seised of a house and lot in the borough of Carlisle. Mrs. Peffer and her…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, October 9th 1871, by
Thompson, C. J.
The only question on this record prescribed by the case stated in the court below, is whether the title of the defendants in error ought in this ejectment to have been regarded as null by the court, because it was acquired on a sale upon an order of the Orphans’ Court, based upon a preceding decree of sale by the .court in partition, while an appeal from the order was pending in the Supreme Court. There had been an appeal from the decree of sale by the plaintiff in error and it had been affirmed by this court. There…
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