Camden Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Eavenson

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Simpson,

In a proceeding under the Act of April 20, 1905, P. L. 239, appellee, as grantee of a sheriff’s vendee, sought to recover from appellant, as tenant in possession, the property which his vendor had purchased at a sheriff’s sale on the foreclosure of a mortgage. Appellant held and claimed to retain possession by virtue of a lease with a former owner of the property, made before the mortgage Avas executed, the term of which lease had not expired, and under which she had been in continuous possession from the time of its execution. She appeals from the judgment…