Moliere's Lessee v. Noe
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Ejectment, for a house and lot in Union street, between Second and Third streets. The plaintiff’s title was briefly this : George Fudge was seised of the premises, in the year 1796, when Moliere, as the assignee of one Muston, instituted three suits *against him, upon several bonds, r*^ returnable to March term 1796, in which judgments were regularly *- obtained.
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Ejectment, for a house and lot in Union street, between Second and Third streets. The plaintiff’s title was briefly this : George Fudge was seised of the premises, in the year 1796, when Moliere, as the assignee of one Muston, instituted three suits *against him, upon several bonds, r*^ returnable to March term 1796, in which judgments were regularly *- obtained. Fudge died, and the judgments were revived against his administrators, by writs of scire facias, returnable to December term 1799 ; judgments were thereupon entered, on the 27th of December; writs of f. fa. issued, returnable the…
1Opinion of the Court
On the 20th of December 1806, the chief justice delivered the opinion of the court in the following terms.
Tilghman, Chief Justice.
— This cause was tried before me at a court of Nisi Prius, held last July, when the point was reserved, which is now to be decided. Without entering into an unnecessary detail of facts, the question may be stated to be simply this : whether the purchaser of lands of a deceased person, sold by order of an orphans’ court, since the 19th of April 1794, holds them discharged from the lien of a judgment, obtained against the intestate in his life.
Ever since the year…
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