Bryar's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term, 1885, No. 63. This was an appeal by Jane Bryar from a decree of the said court dismissing a bill in equity, wherein the said Jane Bryar was plaintiff and Thomas Campbell was defendant.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term, 1885, No. 63. This was an appeal by Jane Bryar from a decree of the said court dismissing a bill in equity, wherein the said Jane Bryar was plaintiff and Thomas Campbell was defendant. The bill alleged : 1. That the plaintiff, Jane Bryar, was the widow of James Bryar, of the City of Pittsburgh; that he died August 30th, 188l, intestate, leaving her and seven children surviving him. 2. That he died seised of the undivided half of about seven acres of land situate in the twenty-first ward of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Trunkey
Robert Arthurs, assignee of James Bryar, a bankrupt, sold and conveyed the land to Thomas Campbell, for consideration of $3,500, subject to the lien of two mortgages, one to T. Mc-r Clintock and the other to E. R. James. Subsequently, said Campbell by his attorney, purchased said mortgages and the judgments which had been obtained thereon, issued a writ of levari facias on one of them by virtue of which the land was sold at sheriff’s sale for $50, and on November 18th, 1881, the attorney conveyed the title acquired at the sheriff’s sale to Campbell.
By the purchase at the assignee’s sale…
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