Leisenring v. Black
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the common pleas of Northumberland county. This was an action of ejectment for two lots in the town of Sun-bury, by Gideon Leisenring against Jane Black. In this case Jane Black, the defendant, and her brother William C. Black, had an unsatisfied judgment, of upwards of two thousand dollars, against their father James Black.
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ERROR to the common pleas of Northumberland county. This was an action of ejectment for two lots in the town of Sun-bury, by Gideon Leisenring against Jane Black. In this case Jane Black, the defendant, and her brother William C. Black, had an unsatisfied judgment, of upwards of two thousand dollars, against their father James Black. Samuel J. Packer, Esq., was their attorney, employed to obtain execution of the judgment, and to collect the amount due thereon, so far as practicable. The lots of ground in controversy, eight in number, lying in the town of Sunbury, were levied on under the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
If the attorney had directed the lots on his bids to have been returned by the sheriff as sold to himself, and the sheriff had accordingly done so, and had made and delivered the deeds of conveyance therefor to him, upon his undertaking to settle the amount of the purchase money with his clients, it could scarcely admit of a question, that the plaintiffs in the judgment would have had a right to have claimed that his purchase was made in trust for them. The attorney in such case being employed by his clients to collect the amount of the…
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