Lessee of Culbertson v. Martin
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Ejectment for one messuage and 50 acres of land in Hopewell township. The plaintiff showed a regular judgment, fieri facias and venditioni exponas against A udrew Gibson, a deed from Thomas Hamilton esquire, sheriff to him dated 23d April 1798, duly acknowledged; and further proved, that both at the time of levy' and sale, Gibson was in peaceable possession of the premises.
1Opinion of the Court
The jus possessionis is in sheriff’s vendee, where the debtor was in possession of the lands, at the time of the levy and sale.
One bound over to answer, -who attempted to influence a sheriff to summon particular jurors for the trial of a cause.
The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff mstanter.
And afterwards Mr. Pentecost for the plaintiff moved, that Nathaniel Jenkins, an agent for the defendant then present in court, should be called on to answer a charge, for having written a letter to the sheriff in the defendant’s name, requesting him to summon the said Jenkins, and two other jurors whom…
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