Campbell's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the District Court of Allegheny county. Samuel R. Johnston and Robert C. Stockton were partners, doing business in the city of Pittsburgh, under the style of Johnston & Stockton. They purchased, January 12, 1835, from the Bank of the United States, “to hold as tenants in common, and not as joint tenants,” certain real estate on Second and Third streets, in the First Ward of the city of Pittsburgh.
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Appeal from the District Court of Allegheny county. Samuel R. Johnston and Robert C. Stockton were partners, doing business in the city of Pittsburgh, under the style of Johnston & Stockton. They purchased, January 12, 1835, from the Bank of the United States, “to hold as tenants in common, and not as joint tenants,” certain real estate on Second and Third streets, in the First Ward of the city of Pittsburgh. They subsequently became embarrassed, and a large number of judgments were obtained against them jointly, and against R. C. Stockton alone. The property above named was levied upon, at…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Knox, J.
Conceding that the sum of twelve hundred dollars paid by Wm. C. Stockton, through Schoonmaker & Co., to C. O. Loomis, was applicable to the judgment in dispute, it does not follow that Stockton, either for himself or as trustee for Mrs. Stockton, the wife of one of the defendants in the judgment, acquired any title to the judgment, except as a purchaser from the plaintiffs’ attorney. William C. Stockton was a mere volun*403teer, and the money paid by him was only intended to transfer the ownership of the judgment, and not to work its satisfaction.…
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