Pugh v. Good
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
THIS was an appeal from the decree of the Common Pleas of Bucks county, distributing the fund in the sheriff’s hands arising from the sale of the defendant’s real estate under a writ of venditioni exponas, at the suit of John B. Pugh.
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THIS was an appeal from the decree of the Common Pleas of Bucks county, distributing the fund in the sheriff’s hands arising from the sale of the defendant’s real estate under a writ of venditioni exponas, at the suit of John B. Pugh. The facts of the case are as follows: On the 28th of June 1836, Edwin Yerkes executed a deed in fee simple to Chalkley Good, for a lot in Bucks county, designated the Shop Lot; and on the 29th of June 1836, Evelina Burson entered a judgment on a bond, with warrant of attorney, in the Common Pleas of Bucks county, against Chalkley Good, for «$275. The 1st day of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Gibson, C. J.
It requires but a glance at the decisions of this court, to see that we have, from the first, implicitly followed the decisions on the British Statute of Frauds, as guides to the interpretation of what we supposed to be our own. The British Statute, though prior to Mr Penn’s charter, seems not to have been considered as extended to Pennsylvania; and our own Statute *58was enacted so late as 1772; yet it may be doubted whether before that time a legal estate of freehold might not have been created here by livery and seisin, or by a parol…
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