Lawrence v. Keener
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 39, July T., 1890, by plaintiff, Messmore Lawrence, from judgment of C. P. Payette Co., March, T., 1888, No. 300, on verdict for defendant, Daniel F. Keener. Ejectment. On tbe trial before Ewing, J., the plaintiff offered in evidence a deed to himself for the premises in question from Thos. Hemstead and wife, dated April 3, 1866, and recorded the same year.
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Appeal, No. 39, July T., 1890, by plaintiff, Messmore Lawrence, from judgment of C. P. Payette Co., March, T., 1888, No. 300, on verdict for defendant, Daniel F. Keener. Ejectment. On tbe trial before Ewing, J., the plaintiff offered in evidence a deed to himself for the premises in question from Thos. Hemstead and wife, dated April 3, 1866, and recorded the same year. The plaintiff testified that he went into possession of the property under the deed and had his wife and four children there. Defendant then showed title under a sheriff’s deed on a judgment against the plaintiff in favor of…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
We find nothing to criticise, either in the rulings of the court below upon questions of evidence, or in the charge to the jury. *408The title of the plaintiff to the land in question was sold by the sheriff in 1878. He now claims that he was not the owner in fee at the time of the sheriff’s sale, but that there was a resulting trust in favor of his wife, the effect of which was to leave him but a life estate; that said life estate still remains in him because of the failure of the execution creditor to pursue the method prescribed by the act of Jan. 24, 1849, providing for the sale of…
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