Bryant's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas Wo. 1 of Allegheny county : Of October Term 1883, Wo. 15. This was an appeal by Sarah M. Bryant from a decree of the court of Common Pleas Wo. 1 of Allegheny county confirming the sheriff’s special return of his distribution of proceeds of sale of the real estate of Citarles Stoehr, arising out of the following facts.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas Wo. 1 of Allegheny county : Of October Term 1883, Wo. 15. This was an appeal by Sarah M. Bryant from a decree of the court of Common Pleas Wo. 1 of Allegheny county confirming the sheriff’s special return of his distribution of proceeds of sale of the real estate of Citarles Stoehr, arising out of the following facts. Under a fi. fa. issued -on a judgment in favor of one Trail er-man against Charles Stoehr, the sheriff levied on and-sold June 5th 1882 certain real estate of the defendant in the fourteenth ward of the city of Pittsbugh, viz. a certain lot…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered November 5th 1883 by
Mr. Justice Sterrett.
The fund for distribution represents two separate pieces of real estate sold by the sheriff on a writ of fieri facias against Christian Stoehr. The lot fronting on Forbes street, 14th ward, Pittsburgh, was sold for $700, and the two 23rd ward lots were sold together for $40. The Forbes street lot was subject to a .municipal lien, filed October 12th 1877, in favor of the city, for paving, etc., under the Penn Avenue Act, which provides, inter alia, that the cost of grading, curbing and paving streets shall be…
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