Shrawder v. Snyder
Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Montgomery County
No. 42 January Term 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 118 June Term 1889, C. P. On May 2, 1889, Joseph Shrawder and Catharine, his wife* in right of said wife, brought ejectment against Jesse L. Snyder, for a farm in Montgomery county. By a disclaimer subsequently filed, the plaintiffs’ claim was limited to the undivided one half of the land. The defendant’s plea was not guilty.
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No. 42 January Term 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 118 June Term 1889, C. P. On May 2, 1889, Joseph Shrawder and Catharine, his wife* in right of said wife, brought ejectment against Jesse L. Snyder, for a farm in Montgomery county. By a disclaimer subsequently filed, the plaintiffs’ claim was limited to the undivided one half of the land. The defendant’s plea was not guilty. At the trial, on December 11, 1889, the plaintiffs, having shown title to the farm in question in Levi Custer, by a conveyance from Jacob Zimmerman, dated April 11,1812, called a witness whose testimony showed that…
1Opinion of the Court
*6Opinion,
Mr. Justice Williams :
The farm in controversy in this case belonged prior to 1846 to Hannah Ouster and Catharine Shrawder (nee Custer), who were sisters. They conveyed it in that year to John Shrack by their deed in which Joseph Shrawder, the husband of Catharine, joined. Soon after, Shrack made a deed for the same farm to Joseph Shrawder. Both deeds were properly recorded. Forty years later, in 1886, Shrawder made a mortgage covering the same land to George W. Oliver for the sum of twelve thousand five hundred dollars. On default being made in the payments provided for, proceedings…
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