Trust Co. v. Hodges
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 25, Oct. T., 1900, by Henry K. Wampole, in suit of tbe Real Estate Title Insurance & Trust Company, trustee, etc., against Charles Hodges and Henry K. Wampole, terre-tenant, from judgment of C. P. No. 1, Phila. Co., Dec. T., 1899, No. 619, for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense. Opinion by W. D. Porter, J. W. W. Porter, J., dissents. Rule for judgment for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense. Before the court in banc.
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Appeal, No. 25, Oct. T., 1900, by Henry K. Wampole, in suit of tbe Real Estate Title Insurance & Trust Company, trustee, etc., against Charles Hodges and Henry K. Wampole, terre-tenant, from judgment of C. P. No. 1, Phila. Co., Dec. T., 1899, No. 619, for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense. Opinion by W. D. Porter, J. W. W. Porter, J., dissents. Rule for judgment for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense. Before the court in banc. It appears from the record that this was an action of assumpsit for a ground rent deed dated April 29,1826, to recover the sum of $ 16.00 alleged to be…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
W. D. Porter, J.,
From seventy years prior to the date at which the instalment for which this action is brought became due, the defendant and those under whom he claims had regularly paid ground rent to the plaintiff and its predecessors in title. The defendant now seeks to escape further payments upon the theory that the ground rent was not reserved at the time of the grant of the land to Charles Hodges by Louis Desauque, on April 29, 1826 ; it is, therefore, only necessary to consider the effect of the agreement between Louis Desauque and Charles Hodges, and the formal deed…
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