Allison v. Wilson's Executors
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. This was an amicable suit, brought in the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon county, to try the right to money paid into court, in the name of Robert Wilson's executors, defendants in error and plaintiffs below, against Robert Jlllison, executor of John Jl. Jlnderson deceased, the defendant below and plaintiff in error, who was a stakeholder, the administrator de bonis non of Ludwig Lowman deceased, being the real defendant.
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IN ERROR. This was an amicable suit, brought in the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon county, to try the right to money paid into court, in the name of Robert Wilson's executors, defendants in error and plaintiffs below, against Robert Jlllison, executor of John Jl. Jlnderson deceased, the defendant below and plaintiff in error, who was a stakeholder, the administrator de bonis non of Ludwig Lowman deceased, being the real defendant. The plaintiffs below claimed the money on the one hand, and the administrator de bonis non of Ludwig Lowman, on the other. Ludwig Lowman died in 1797, leaving…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Gibson, J
In equity, no rule is of more frequent occurrence in practice, than that by which land directed to be converted into money, or money directed to be converted into land, is to be treated as that species of property into which the one or the other is so directed to be converted. For the application of this rule to particular eases, it is sufficient to refer to the opinion of Judge Washington, in Craig v. Leslie, where the learning on the subject is ably and lucidly staled. What we have to determine at present, is, whether the case before us is…
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