Ferguson v. Quinn
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR TO THE COURT OF COMMON FLEAS NO. 1 GHENT COUNTY. OF AIjIj10- No. 201 October Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 428 December Term 1886, C. P. No. 1. A summons in ejectment to the first Monday of December, 1886, for a lot in the Sixteenth ward, Pittsburgh, was duly served, in an action wherein Robert G. Ferguson was the plaintiff and James P. Quinn, defendant. Issue.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF COMMON FLEAS NO. 1 GHENT COUNTY. OF AIjIj10- No. 201 October Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 428 December Term 1886, C. P. No. 1. A summons in ejectment to the first Monday of December, 1886, for a lot in the Sixteenth ward, Pittsburgh, was duly served, in an action wherein Robert G. Ferguson was the plaintiff and James P. Quinn, defendant. Issue. At the trial on March 8, 1888, the plaintiff showed title in himself by deed from Gustavus Stoy dated October 2, 1871, for lot No. 64 in Stoy’s plan which deed was recorded in the recorder’s office on April 19, 1872, and…
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION,
Me. Justice Paxson :
Hering v. Chambers, 103 Pa. 172, following in the line of Delaney v. Gault, 30 Pa. 63; Cadmus v. Jackson, 52 Pa. 295; Soullier v. Kern, 69 Pa. 16; Emrick v. Dicken, 92 Pa. 78, decided that a purchaser at sheriff’s sale under a judgment obtained on a scire facias sur municipal claim, is not bound to show that the acts of assembly, relating to such proceeding, have been strictly complied with; he is protected by the judgment.
It is providéd by the fourth section of the act of February 24, 1871, P. L. 126, relating to the registry of lots in the city of Pittsburgh, as…
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- Emrick v. DickenSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1880
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- Soullier v. KernSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1871
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