Schock v. Solar Gas Light Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 293, Jan. T., 1907, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Lancaster Co., Jan. T., 1904, No. 25, on verdict for plaintiffs in case of EL C. Schock et al. v. The Solar Gas Light Company. Ejectment for land in Mount Joy. Before Landis, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. Verdict and judgment for plaintiffs. Defendant appealed. Errors assigned were various rulings on evidence and in submitting the case to the jury.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Stewart,
The question here at issue was whether Samuel Kurtz, as whose property the premises in dispute were sold by his assignee in bankruptcy to the plaintiffs, was at the time of such sale the real owner, notwithstanding the fact that the legal title was in the defendant’s predecessor, the Tanners’ Mutual Fire Insurance Company. The effort on the part of the plaintiffs was to show that in the original acquisition of the several properties, Kurtz was the real purchaser, and that title was taken in the name of the insurance company with the double purpose, first, to…
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