Hamm v. Beaver
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Clarion county. Ejectment to enforce the payment of purchase-money. John G. Beaver, the plaintiff below, sold to James Pox, one of the defendants below, the tract of land for which this ejectment was brought, by an article of agreement dated the 23d day of February, a. d. 1850, for the price of seven dollars per acre, four hundred dollars to be paid in hand, and the balance in four equal annual instalments.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Clarion county. Ejectment to enforce the payment of purchase-money. John G. Beaver, the plaintiff below, sold to James Pox, one of the defendants below, the tract of land for which this ejectment was brought, by an article of agreement dated the 23d day of February, a. d. 1850, for the price of seven dollars per acre, four hundred dollars to be paid in hand, and the balance in four equal annual instalments. On the 9th day of January, 1856, this action of ejectment was commenced for the purpose of compelling the payment of the last instalment of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered
by Lewis, C. J.
— On the 23d February, 1850, John G. Beaver entered into articles of agreement for the sale of a tract of land to James Fox, at the rate of seven dollars per acre, $400 to be paid in hand, and the residue in four equal annual instalments. Beaver was to make a good warrantee deed to Fox, at the time when the last instalment should be paid. In 1853, before the last instalment was due, Beaver brought an ejectment to compel the payment of the instalments then due and unpaid. That cause was referred to arbitrators, who found for the plaintiff;…
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