Manufacturers' & Mechanics' Bank v. Bank of Pennsylvania
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the Common Pleas of Union county. The Manufacturers’ and Mechanics’ Bank against The President, Directors & Co. of the Bank of Pennsylvania, the West Branch Bank at Williamsport, and the Bank of the United States. This was an issue directed by the court to try the right, to the proceeds of the sale of the real estate of John H. Cowden.
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ERROR to the Common Pleas of Union county. The Manufacturers’ and Mechanics’ Bank against The President, Directors & Co. of the Bank of Pennsylvania, the West Branch Bank at Williamsport, and the Bank of the United States. This was an issue directed by the court to try the right, to the proceeds of the sale of the real estate of John H. Cowden. The claims of the respective parties were founded on the following facts: On the 24th April 1841, John H. Cowden conveyed the land, the proceeds of the sale of which were the subject of controversy, by an absolute deed, to one of the directors of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Gibson, C. J.
The Manufacturers’ and Mechanics’ Bank, the United States Bank, the Bánk of Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia Bank,. J. & R. Elliott, and the West Branch Bank, stand as claimants on the fund in court, in the order of priority in which I have named them; and I shall dispose of the objections to their claims in the same order.
The Manufacturers’ and Mechanics’ Bank claim by a deed which is in form an absolute conveyance to a third person, from whom they have acquired the legal title; but which is proved by a written specification of conditions…
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