Christy v. Crawford
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR, to the Common Pleas of Mercer county. James Christy against William Crawford. This was a scire facias upon a mortgage, in which the parties agreed to the following special verdict: The mortgage in this case, dated the 25th February 1839, and recorded 30th March 1839, was given to secure the payment of $2040, according to the condition of a bond bearing same date therewith, and referred to in said mortgage.
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ERROR, to the Common Pleas of Mercer county. James Christy against William Crawford. This was a scire facias upon a mortgage, in which the parties agreed to the following special verdict: The mortgage in this case, dated the 25th February 1839, and recorded 30th March 1839, was given to secure the payment of $2040, according to the condition of a bond bearing same date therewith, and referred to in said mortgage. The land embraced in said mortgage was conveyed to defendant by deed bearing same date of the mortgage, under whom terre-tenants claim title. Certain payments were made on said bond…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
The question for determination in this case arises out of the 24th section of the Act of Assembly of the 16th June 1836, relating to reference and arbitration. This section is applicable only to awards entered by the prothonotary in the proper docket, under a compulsory arbitration, as it is called in the Act. The words of the section are, “ Every award so entered (that is, entered by the prothonotary in the proper docket forthwith upon being transmitted to him by the arbitrators, as directed in the three preceding sections of the Act) shall…
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