Wilson v. McCullough
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Cumberland county. Ejectment by Thomas S. Wilson and others v. D. W. McCullough and others, for 2050 acres of land, called the Cumberland Furnace Estate. This is the same case, reports of which exist in 7 Harris 77, &c., and in 9 Harris 436, &c.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Cumberland county. Ejectment by Thomas S. Wilson and others v. D. W. McCullough and others, for 2050 acres of land, called the Cumberland Furnace Estate. This is the same case, reports of which exist in 7 Harris 77, &c., and in 9 Harris 436, &c. The plaintiffs below claimed one undivided half of the property in question under a marriage settlement between James Wilson and Thomas Duncan and Thomas Carothers, guardians of Eliza Ege, dated the 21st of July, 1817, and recorded on the 22d July, 1823 ; and the whole of the property as heirs at law of Eliza Wilson,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Woodward, J.
The validity of the marriage articles having been established, when the case was here in 1852 (7 Harris 77), the great question on the last trial of the cause was, whether the*bank had notice of them when the mortgage of 12th December, 1821, was taken. The bank was a mortgagee without constructive notice, for the articles were not recorded until some months after the mortgage was duly executed and recorded. Had the bank actual notice ? The plaintiffs held the affirmative of this question, and the burden of proof was on them. The evidence…
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