Kirkpatrick v. Black
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the common pleas of Butler county. David Kirkpatrick and others, heirs at law of John Kirkpatrick,' deceased, against John Black. This ejectment was brought to recover the possession of 400 acres of land, situate in Mercer township.
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ERROR to the common pleas of Butler county. David Kirkpatrick and others, heirs at law of John Kirkpatrick,' deceased, against John Black. This ejectment was brought to recover the possession of 400 acres of land, situate in Mercer township. The plaintiffs claimed the land in dispute as the heirs of the late John Kirkpatrick, and gave in evidence articles of agreement between John Kirkpatrick and Richard Jarvis, dated March 20, 1797, by which Jarvis covenanted to make the improvements and settlement on the tract required by the act of April 3, 1792, and Kirkpatick covenanted to procure the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Gibson, C. J.
When not transcending the mandate of his writ, the sheriff may be considered in some degree as the creditor’s agent. Thus, payment to him on the foot of a fieri facias, discharges the debt, though the command is to get the money only by a sale of the debtor’s goods; and the creditor’s further recourse is to the sheriff. As to levy, time, place, and circumstances, the doing of execution is generally under the superintendence of the judgment creditor; and the sheriff acts, in these matters, so invariably by direction of the attorney, that in…
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