Cressona Ass'n v. Sowers
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY DEFENDANTS FROM THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF SCHUYLKILL COUNTY. No. 326 January Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 5 January Term 1886, C. P. in Equity.
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APPEAL BY DEFENDANTS FROM THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF SCHUYLKILL COUNTY. No. 326 January Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 5 January Term 1886, C. P. in Equity. On December 21,1885, the Cressona Saying Fund & Building Association filed a bill in equity against Catharine Sowers and Daniel Sowers, her husband, praying for a decree reforming, in accordance with the actual facts, a certificate of acknowledgment subjoined to a conveyance of certain land from the defendants to one Daniel Ney for the consideration of $100, said certificate, as written on the deed, immediately beneath tlie…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Me. Justice Mitchell:
This is a bill under the act of May 25, 1878, P. L. 149, to reform the acknowledgment of a deed. The defects sought to be cured arise solely out of the omission of the justice to insert the first few lines of the ordinary form, and his starting with the phrase, “ and in due form of law acknowledged,” etc. From that point on, the acknowledgment is regular and complete. The defects, therefore, are the absence of the venue, the failure to show that the justice was of the proper county, and the omission to state the presence and acknowledgment by Daniel Sowers. All…
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