Com. ex rel. Meconkey v. Rogers
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error, to the Common Pleas of Chester county. The judgment of the court below was affirmed in this' case, the supreme court being equally divided. The cause was ruled in the common pleas by Mr. Justice Bell, before his appointment to the supreme bench, and he did not therefore sit in the cause. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court below.
1Opinion of the Court
Bell, President.
— The first question raised by the special verdict is, whether the defendant, as sheriff, properly paid out of the fund in his hands, proceeding from the sale of the real estate of George W. Pennock, the amount of the judgment recovered by William & Alexander Mode against *451Moses & Jesse Coates, and revived by scire facias and judgment therein, rendered on the 22d of April, 1837? Land bound by the lien of this judgment was, in 1839, conveyed by Jesse Coates, one of the defendants therein, and his wife, to George W. Pennock, who continued to be the owner thereof, until it was,…
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