Corporation for the Relief of Poor Distressed Presbyterian v. Wallace
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was a scire facias on a mortgage issued in this court to March Term, 1822, hy the plaintiffs against John B. Wallace and Susan his wife, mortgagors, and James Hunter, Joseph P. Smith„ Charles Stewart’s heirs, George Pepper, and Dorothy and Susan Davis, terre-tenants. * The counsel of the parties agreed upon a special verdict, which disclosed the following facts.
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This was a scire facias on a mortgage issued in this court to March Term, 1822, hy the plaintiffs against John B. Wallace and Susan his wife, mortgagors, and James Hunter, Joseph P. Smith„ Charles Stewart’s heirs, George Pepper, and Dorothy and Susan Davis, terre-tenants. * The counsel of the parties agreed upon a special verdict, which disclosed the following facts. On the fourth of September, 1805, John B. Wallace, Esq. and wife, mortgaged the premises described in the scire facias as city lots, Nos. 2017, 2018, and 2019, to the plaintiffs, for the payment of four thousand one hundred and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinions of the court were delivered by
Gibson, C. J.
No prudent judge will disregard an opinion of the bar. During an experience of fifteen years in this court, I have seldom found one of its decisions received with disapprobation at the bar, which did not contain something which called for revision. But professional opinion, though valuable as a test of judicial decision, is not infallible. The principle recognized in Willard v. Norris, was viewed in a particular part of the state, as a portentous novelty; yet a little consideration would have shown it to be a familiar part of the…
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