Nass v. Vanswearingen
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to a special Court of Common Pleas of Mifflin county, held before Reed, president of the ninth district, and the associate justices of Mifflin county. - Ejectment for eighty-five acres of land, brought by Isaac VanSwearingen and others, plaintiffs below, children and heirs of Thomas Vanswearingen, deceased, who died intestate, seised of-the land in dispute in fee simple, against George Nass, the defendant below.
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Error to a special Court of Common Pleas of Mifflin county, held before Reed, president of the ninth district, and the associate justices of Mifflin county. - Ejectment for eighty-five acres of land, brought by Isaac VanSwearingen and others, plaintiffs below, children and heirs of Thomas Vanswearingen, deceased, who died intestate, seised of-the land in dispute in fee simple, against George Nass, the defendant below. On the trial in the court below, after proof by the plaintiffs of the title of the deceased, and of the plaintiffs’ pedigree, the defendant offered in evidence the records of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Gibson, J.
The land of Thomas Vanswearingen, who . died intestate, was sold on two judgments obtained against .his son Samuel, as executor de son tort; who had before entered into arti*146eles for the sale of it to Nass, the purchaser at sheriff’s sale. At the trial of this ejectment by the other children of the intestate, the purchaser, who was the defendant below, offered in evidence the record of the judgments, the executions, levy, inquisition, condemnation, venditioni exponas, sale, and the sheriff’s deed: together with proof of payment of the purchase…
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