Conklin v. Bush
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In error from the Common Pleas of Wayne county. July 10. This was an action of account render by the administrator of Hannah Bush. The first count alleged that the defendants were bailiffs; the second, that there was a tenancy in common, and the defendants received the profits as her bailiffs; the third alleged that she was seised of an undivided third, the profits of which were received by defendants as bailiffs.
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In error from the Common Pleas of Wayne county. July 10. This was an action of account render by the administrator of Hannah Bush. The first count alleged that the defendants were bailiffs; the second, that there was a tenancy in common, and the defendants received the profits as her bailiffs; the third alleged that she was seised of an undivided third, the profits of which were received by defendants as bailiffs. The case was this: — In 1826, S. Bush, the husband of the plaintiff’s intestate, devised all his real estate to her during widowhood. In 1888 he executed a deed conveying to one of…
1Opinion of the CourtCoulter, J.
The deed from Simeon Bush, the elder, to his son Eli C. Bush, and also one from the same to his son James C. Bush, were properly admitted in evidence. Although the deed was not signed by Hannah, the wife of Simeon, and although her acknowledgment before the justice was defective in substance, yet these circumstances were important only as they affected the widow’s right of dower. The deeds on their face were good against Simeon Bush, the elder, and were of controlling effect in this cause, inasmuch as they established the character of the seisin and possession of the defendants, and…
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