Brobst v. Brock
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the suit below being an ejectment for an undivided fourth of a tract of land, and the case being this: The tract for a fourth of which the ejectment was brought, was the easternmost of twenty-five adjoining tracts in Pennsylvania which were surveyed in 1798, on warrants issued the same year, and for which separate patents were issued on the -9th and 10th of May, in 1816, to one George Grant, who in the same…
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Error to the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the suit below being an ejectment for an undivided fourth of a tract of land, and the case being this: The tract for a fourth of which the ejectment was brought, was the easternmost of twenty-five adjoining tracts in Pennsylvania which were surveyed in 1798, on warrants issued the same year, and for which separate patents were issued on the -9th and 10th of May, in 1816, to one George Grant, who in the same year conveyed the whole, forming a tract of 10,000 acres, to Thomas B. Smith. Smith conveyed the whole in undivided…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Strong
-Much of the very elaborate argument addressed to us on behalf of the plaintiff in error was directed to .the consideration of questions not necessary to the decision of this case. "Whether the judgment in the scire facias upon the mortgage was absolutely void, or only irregular, we are not called upon now to determine, for on the trial of the case in the court below no effect was allowed to it. The learned judge who presided at the trial did not rule that the judgment was valid, or that the sale made, under it divested the equity .of redemption of the mortgagor, or of John Brobst, to whom…
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