Ludwig v. Highley
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In error from the Common Pleas of Montgomery county. March 30, 31. This was an ejectment for certain property known as “the Gulf Mill.”
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In error from the Common Pleas of Montgomery county. March 30, 31. This was an ejectment for certain property known as “the Gulf Mill.” The plaintiff showed a sheriff’s sale in April, 1833, to James Wells, for $2,600; a deed in December following, from Wells to Jacob Freedley, acknowledged May 1, 1834, and recorded April 11, the consideration named being |T,600; and a conveyance by Jacob Freedley and wife to the plaintiffs, on the 28th June, 1842. This deed was an indenture between Freedley et ux., and D. Wood et ux., of the first and second parts, reciting proceedings in bankruptcy against…
1Opinion of the CourtBell, J.
Notwithstanding the numerous errors assigned in this record, there are, in reality, but two questions of aiiy moment involved in the ease. The first of these is, whether, under the facts given in evidence, any beneficial interest in the premises in question passed to the plaintiffs, as the representatives of creditors, by virtue of the deed of assignment of 12th July, 1842 ? It was .in clear and uncontradicted proof on the trial, and so found by the jury, that although, up to the 1st of April, or, possibly, the 27th of May, 1842, the legal estate in the land and messuages known as the Gulf…
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