Appeal of Hilton
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
No. 104 January Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; Court below', No. 16 May Term 1885, C. P. This was an appeal, with writ of certiorari thereon, by John C. Hilton, assignee of the Humboldt Safe Deposit and Trust Company, from the decree of the court below upon exceptions to the report of an auditor making distribution of the proceeds of a sheriff’s sale of the property of John H. Welsh.
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No. 104 January Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; Court below', No. 16 May Term 1885, C. P. This was an appeal, with writ of certiorari thereon, by John C. Hilton, assignee of the Humboldt Safe Deposit and Trust Company, from the decree of the court below upon exceptions to the report of an auditor making distribution of the proceeds of a sheriff’s sale of the property of John H. Welsh. On February 28, 1829, Rufus S. Reed, the owner in fee of part of lot 2,039 in the then borough of Erie, executed a lease thereof to one Charles Lay for the term of nine hundred and ninety-nine years from November 1, 1830,…
1Opinion of the Court
*357Opinion,
Mr. Justice Sterrett :
This contention between creditors of John H. Welsh arose upon distribution of the fund produced by sheriff’s sale of his leasehold interest in a lot held by him under lease for the term of nine hundred and ninety-nine years from November 1,1830, and on which he had erected a three story brick store house.
One of the questions is whether such a leasehold estate is within the provisions of the act of' April.27, 1855, and subsequent legislation on same subject, and may thus become the subject of a valid leasehold mortgage.
The purpose of the act, as stated in its…
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