Menges v. Dentler
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Commorf Pleas of Northumberland county.* This was an ejectment by William Menges against Peter D. Dentler, for a tract of 80 acres of land, in Delaware township. The plaintiff claimed title as one of the heirs of Solomon Menges, who, in his lifetime, was the owner of a tract of 408 acres, lying partly in Lycoming, and partly in Northumberland county.
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Error to the Commorf Pleas of Northumberland county.* This was an ejectment by William Menges against Peter D. Dentler, for a tract of 80 acres of land, in Delaware township. The plaintiff claimed title as one of the heirs of Solomon Menges, who, in his lifetime, was the owner of a tract of 408 acres, lying partly in Lycoming, and partly in Northumberland county. On the 1st June 1833, Solomon Menges executed a mortgage of this land to William Parker, for $800, which was recorded only in Lycoming county. In 1838, a scire facias was issued on this mortgage, out of the Court of Common Pleas of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Lowrie, C. J.
The title to this land was once, in due course of law, declared to be in the heirs of Solomon Menges, against the title claimed by George Oyster under a sheriff’s deed, purporting to convey it as the property of their father. Afterwards, an Act of Assembly was passed, 24th April 1843 (Pamph. L. 362, § 11), declaring that sheriff’s deed valid, in so far as the Supreme Court had declared it invalid. Then the controversy was renewed, and the Act of Assembly was decided by the Supreme Court to be constitutional, and Oyster’s title was…
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