Hoff's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Common Pleas of Berks county: Of January Term 1877, No. 173. The facts briefly were these. In 1874 James M. Phillips owned a property in the city of Reading, which was encumbered by the lien of a judgment of Henrietta C. Addams, which judgment was entered originally April 11th 1870, and a mortgage of Henry A. Hoff, dated October 29th 1873. In 1874 Phillips purchased additional property and the Addams judgment having been revived in 1875, become a lien also…
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Appeal from the Common Pleas of Berks county: Of January Term 1877, No. 173. The facts briefly were these. In 1874 James M. Phillips owned a property in the city of Reading, which was encumbered by the lien of a judgment of Henrietta C. Addams, which judgment was entered originally April 11th 1870, and a mortgage of Henry A. Hoff, dated October 29th 1873. In 1874 Phillips purchased additional property and the Addams judgment having been revived in 1875, become a lien also upon this property. In July 1875 Phillips sold the last acquired property to George E. Reiff for a valuable consideration.…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Agnew
The liens against Phillips, the owner of the estate in question, stood in this order, viz.: Two mortgages to Nichols, a judgment of Henrietta Addams, and a judgment of Rufus Addams, these all in *421870. Then two judgments in 1872, and lastly, Hoff’s mortgage in 1873. In December 1874 Phillips acquired title to the property in question. In March 1875 Henrietta Addams revived her judgment against Phillips, and it then became a lien against this after-acquired property. In July 1875 Phillips conveyed this property to Reiff bona fide and for a full consideration. In April 1876 the property bound…
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