Cover & Wife v. Manaway
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Fayette county: Of January Term, 1887, No. 144. Ejectment by John Manaway against George W. Cover and Louise Cover for 116 acres of land in Henry Clay township, Fayette county. Plea, Not guiltjn The facts of the case as they appeared on the trial before Inghram, P. J., are as follows : Both, parties claimed under Jacob Staup who, up to 1872, was the owner of a tract of land in Henry Clay township, containing 234 acres and 131 perches.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Fayette county: Of January Term, 1887, No. 144. Ejectment by John Manaway against George W. Cover and Louise Cover for 116 acres of land in Henry Clay township, Fayette county. Plea, Not guiltjn The facts of the case as they appeared on the trial before Inghram, P. J., are as follows : Both, parties claimed under Jacob Staup who, up to 1872, was the owner of a tract of land in Henry Clay township, containing 234 acres and 131 perches. On the 12th of August, 1872, a judgment was entered against Jacob Staup in favor of John Collins, for $2,000, which became…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark
The return of the fieri facias on the John Collins judgment, the sale of the land in controversy under it, and the sheriff’s deed to Collins do not appear to have been read in evidence; whether this resulted from mere inadvertence, we cannot say, but the sale of the land on that writ, and the execution of the deed would seem to have been assumed on both sides. The deed from John Collins and wife to Louise Cover, dated 20th November 1887, was admitted in evidence wdthout objection, and in the recitals of that deed, the premises conveyed are designated as “ part of the same premises which said…
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