Webb v. Dean
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court, Philadelphia. This was an action of ejectment by John Dean v. Reuben Webb, to March T. 1841, for a piece of land in the county of Philadelphia. The plaintiff having died, William E. Dean and others, as his heirs, were substituted. The property was claimed by the plaintiff by virtue of a sheriff’s sale in 1836, as the property of Zalegman Phillips.
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Error to the District Court, Philadelphia. This was an action of ejectment by John Dean v. Reuben Webb, to March T. 1841, for a piece of land in the county of Philadelphia. The plaintiff having died, William E. Dean and others, as his heirs, were substituted. The property was claimed by the plaintiff by virtue of a sheriff’s sale in 1836, as the property of Zalegman Phillips. On the 23d June, 1836, a judgment was obtained by John Thompson against Zalegman Phillips, on a cause of action which arose subsequent to the assignment, hereafter referred to; and under the same the premises were sold…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered, by
Woodward, J.
— On the 4th day of December, 1820, Zalegman Phillips, then the owner of the premises for which this suit was brought, being in embarrassed circumstances, voluntarily assigned all his estate to Henry Solomons and Bayse Newcomb, in trust to sell and convert the same into money, and to pay creditors of the said Z. Phillips. The assignment was recorded, but there is no evidence before us that the assignees undertook the execution of the trust, or that they were superseded, and others appointed in their stead. Mr. Newcomb, the only surviving…
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