Brown v. Devitt
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY PLAINTIFFS FROM THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY. No. 225 October Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 84 September Term 1888, C. P. On June 20, 1888, B. F. Brown and N. F. Stanton brought ejectment against John Devitt and T. S. Fletcher for a tract of land containing ten acres, the prsecipe for the writ stating that the action was brought to enforce the payment of $1,600 purchase money and interest thereon from October 7,1887. Issue.
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APPEAL BY PLAINTIFFS FROM THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY. No. 225 October Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 84 September Term 1888, C. P. On June 20, 1888, B. F. Brown and N. F. Stanton brought ejectment against John Devitt and T. S. Fletcher for a tract of land containing ten acres, the prsecipe for the writ stating that the action was brought to enforce the payment of $1,600 purchase money and interest thereon from October 7,1887. Issue. At the trial on March 21, 1889, the following facts were shown: On May 26, 1886, the plaintiffs took from Joseph Knox and others, an…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice McCollum:
This was an action of ejectment, brought to enforce payment of the purchase money due on an agreement for the sale of an interest in ten acres of land under an oil lease. In this agreement the plaintiffs were the vendors, and defendant Devitt, under whom defendant Fletcher claims title, was the vendee. The purchase money was $5,000, payable in instalments, for which judgment notes of the vendee were given. The agreement provided that the title to the property should not pass to the vendee until the full amount of the purchase money was paid. It also contained a…
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