Stevenson v. Stonehill
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL. This was an appeal from a decree of the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia, in the matter of-the distribution of the proceeds of a sheriff’s sale of a building and lot of ground, sold by virtue of an execution, in an action brought by Hugh Stevenson against James Stonehill.
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APPEAL. This was an appeal from a decree of the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia, in the matter of-the distribution of the proceeds of a sheriff’s sale of a building and lot of ground, sold by virtue of an execution, in an action brought by Hugh Stevenson against James Stonehill. The fund for distribution was $324 72, and the District Court referred the subject to an auditor, who reported that the sum of one hundred and fifty-six dollars was claimed for arrears of ground-rent, and the balance was claimed by the counsel for John Henson, a lien creditor, which was resisted…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Huston, J.
The property of James Stonehill was sold at sheriff’s sale, and the money not being sufficient to satisfy all liens, a question arose between Lewis D. Belair, assignee of Haslarn, and John Henson ; the first claimed under a judgment entered the 20th of April, 1836; the other for work and materials in putting a zinc roof on the building, in November, 1836, and the following winter.
The property had been sold by the sheriff in January, 1836, and then struck down on the bid of James Stonehill, to whom the sheriff executed a deed on the 7th of…
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