Keating v. Williams
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the district court of Alleghany county. This was an action of ejectment by Walter Williams, assignee of William Bousman, an insolvent debtor, against John Keating and others, for several lots of ground on Grant’s Hill, with a dwelling house erected thereon. The proof was that these lots originally belonged to John Keating, who conveyed the same to John Thompson, subject to a perpetual ground rent of 20 dollars.
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ERROR to the district court of Alleghany county. This was an action of ejectment by Walter Williams, assignee of William Bousman, an insolvent debtor, against John Keating and others, for several lots of ground on Grant’s Hill, with a dwelling house erected thereon. The proof was that these lots originally belonged to John Keating, who conveyed the same to John Thompson, subject to a perpetual ground rent of 20 dollars. In 1818 Thompson conveyed them to Bousman, in consideration of 400 dollars, subject to the ground rent. In 1822 Bousman was discharged as insolvent debtor, but no assignee was…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Huston, J.
The first error assigned was not insisted on here, and could not have been with effect. The proceedings under our acts for the relief of insolvent debtors are often entered in short notes on the petition, or on the minute book of the prothonotary. The person appointed as trustee is not always present in court at the time of his appointment; and frequently, if the property is small, or the management of it is likely to be attended with trouble, the trustee refuses to accept, or to give bond, and, in such case, months or years elapse before…
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