Sankey v. Hawley
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR TO THE COURT OE COMMON PLEAS OE PERRY COUNTY. No. 314 January Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 24 April Term 1886, C. P. On February 24, 1886, an action of ejectment was begun in the court below by Joseph M. Hawley against Jacob Sankey and Samuel K. Sankey, trading as Jacob Sankey & Son, for the recovery of a planing mill and appurtenances in Penn township. The plea was not guilty.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OE COMMON PLEAS OE PERRY COUNTY. No. 314 January Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 24 April Term 1886, C. P. On February 24, 1886, an action of ejectment was begun in the court below by Joseph M. Hawley against Jacob Sankey and Samuel K. Sankey, trading as Jacob Sankey & Son, for the recovery of a planing mill and appurtenances in Penn township. The plea was not guilty. At the trial, on January 21,1887, before Charles A. Barnett, P. J., the facts appeared that on December 17, 1883, Samuel K. Sankey, then the owner of the property in dispute, conveyed the same by an…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Chief Justice Gordon:
The case in hand involves the construction of the act of the 8th of June, 1881, P. L. 84; if, indeed, an act so plain and positive in its terms can be said to need construction.
From the statement of the plaintiffs in error we gather the following history of the case: Samuel K. Sankey was the owner of a lot of ground in Penn township, Perry county, on which was erected a planing mill. On December 17, 1888, he borrowed from Joseph M. Hawley, the plaintiff below, the sum of four thousand dollars, and, as security for the same, executed to Hawley a deed for the…
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