Norris's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals from the District Court of Philadelphia. These were appeals by Charles Norris and Harvey Terry, from the decree of the District Court, distributing the proceeds of a sheriff’s sale of the real estate of William Conaway.
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Appeals from the District Court of Philadelphia. These were appeals by Charles Norris and Harvey Terry, from the decree of the District Court, distributing the proceeds of a sheriff’s sale of the real estate of William Conaway. The auditor appointed to report distribution of the fund, reported that the ground sold by the sheriff was conveyed to William Conaway, the defendant, in two parcels, one of them on the 1st January 1852, and the other on the 17th February 1853. On the 3d March 1853, he commenced the erection, on a part of the premises, of a building, designed as a manufactory for…
1Per curiam
— The reasons given by the learned President of the District Court, for the decree entered in this case, are so entirely satisfactory to our minds, that we do not feel called upon to add anything to them. He has indeed expressed some reasons for doubting the views of this court, presented in the case of Armstrong v. Ware, 20 State R. 520, relative to the mode of deciding when an alteration of a building shall be treated as a new erection, and has not convinced us that we were in error; but this is not material in the decision of this cause.
Decree affirmed at the costs of the appellants.
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