Bailey v. Allegheny National Bank
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 1 of Allegheny county: Of October and November-Term 1883, No. 89. Ejectment, by the Allegheny National Bank against Robert J. Bailey, to recover two tracts of Jand particularly described in the writ, containing respectively over six acres and over three acres. Plea, not guilty.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 1 of Allegheny county: Of October and November-Term 1883, No. 89. Ejectment, by the Allegheny National Bank against Robert J. Bailey, to recover two tracts of Jand particularly described in the writ, containing respectively over six acres and over three acres. Plea, not guilty. On the trial, before Stowe, P. J., it was admitted that John Adams died seised of a farm of about 82 acres, including the premises in question, December 3d 1872, leaving to survive him a widow and seven children of whom Mrs. Annie Eliza Mackey, wife of W. H. Mackey was one. By his…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Steeeett
The question presented by this record is whether the Allegheny National Bank, as purchaser at the sheriff’s sale hereinafter mentioned, acquired title to the land in controversy. If it did, there was no error in entering judgment on the verdict in its favor.
The facts upon which the question arises are substantially these: In 1872, John Adams devised his homestead farm to his wile, for life, and directed that after her decease it should be sold by his executors and the proceeds divided among, his seven children, one of whom was the wife of William II. Mackey. In June 1875, after the decease of…
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