West Hickory Mining Ass'n v. Reed
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Venango county, No. 180: Of October and November Term 1874. ■ This was an action of debt, brought December 4th 1871, by The West Hickory Mining Association against William Reed, to recover the purchase-money of a tract of land under the following agreement:— “This agreement between the West Hickory Mining Association, of the first part, and William Reed, witnesseth, That the said Mining Company have agreed to sell to said Reed one…
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Venango county, No. 180: Of October and November Term 1874. ■ This was an action of debt, brought December 4th 1871, by The West Hickory Mining Association against William Reed, to recover the purchase-money of a tract of land under the following agreement:— “This agreement between the West Hickory Mining Association, of the first part, and William Reed, witnesseth, That the said Mining Company have agreed to sell to said Reed one hundred acres of west ends of lots one and two of their lands on West Hickory, as laid out, for the sum of eleven thousand…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodward
The plaintiffs held only an equitable title to the tract of land which was the subject of the agreement between them and the defendant on the 15th day of October 1870, the date of its execution. While a conveyance had been made to the West Hickory Mining Association by Dr. Gilbert and Mr. Nevin, yet the deed to those gentlemen, executed by William T. Neill and John Wilson on the 6th of January 1865, was held in escrow, a balance of purchase-money remaining unpaid. This deed is not on the record, nor in the case, for, though read upon the trial, it was afterwards withdrawn by the plaintiffs.…
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