Scott v. Greenough
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In Error. ERROR to the Court of Common Pleas of Columbia county.' This was an action by the administrators of Jacob Hart, deceased, late Sheriff of Luzerne county, against Ebenezer Greenough, Esq., to recover the purchase money of -a tract of land, sold by Hart to Greenough, by virtue of a writ of venditioni exponas, issued by the Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland county.
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In Error. ERROR to the Court of Common Pleas of Columbia county.' This was an action by the administrators of Jacob Hart, deceased, late Sheriff of Luzerne county, against Ebenezer Greenough, Esq., to recover the purchase money of -a tract of land, sold by Hart to Greenough, by virtue of a writ of venditioni exponas, issued by the Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland county. The land sold to the defendant had been levied on and condemned, on a writ of téstatum fieri facias, issued by the Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland county, on a judgment obtained by Thomas Craig against John…
1Opinion of the Court
The -opinion-of the Court was delivered by
Tilghman, C. J
Whether in case of a venditioni ex-ponas, issued by a Court of Common Pleas of one county directed to the Sheriff of another county, the Sheriff who sells, may make a valid acknowledgment of a deed before the Court of his own county, before the return day of the writ^í do not think it necessary to decide, because even supposing the apknowledgment in this case not to have been good, there are other circumstances sufficient to establish the plaintiff’s right of recovery. Thé Court of Common Pleas .went too far, in saying, that before.the…
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