Lewis's Assigned Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 517, Jan. T., 1894, by Rush Donley, from order of C. P. Chester Co., Oct. T., 1892, No. 7, dismissing exceptions to confirmation of sheriff’s sale. Exceptions to confirmation of sheriff’s sale. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Frror assigned was the order dismissing exceptions to confirmation of the sheriff’s sale.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
On the 9th of January, 1892, Daniel H. Lewis made an assignment for the benefit of creditors to Francis C. Hooton, Esq. The assigned estate consisted exclusively of a life estate of Lewis in a tract of about ninety acres of improved land in East-town township, in Chester county. At the date of the assignment, Landis & Erisman had a judgment duly entered of record *377against Lewis; Francis C. Hooton also had a judgment against the same defendant.
On October 18,1892, Landis & Erisman issued fi. fa. on their judgment, and on this writ the life estate was levied and…
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