Coates's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
THIS was an appeal from a decree of the Common Pleas of Chester county on the distribution of moneys raised by sheriff’s sale, in which it was agreed that the following statement of facts, upon which the question in the, case arose and the decree of the Court of Common Pleas was made, be certified to this court: On the 5th July 1835, Jesse Coates was the owner in fee-simple of several tracts of land in Chester county, on which there were some incumbrances by judgments -and…
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THIS was an appeal from a decree of the Common Pleas of Chester county on the distribution of moneys raised by sheriff’s sale, in which it was agreed that the following statement of facts, upon which the question in the, case arose and the decree of the Court of Common Pleas was made, be certified to this court: On the 5th July 1835, Jesse Coates was the owner in fee-simple of several tracts of land in Chester county, on which there were some incumbrances by judgments -and mortgages, much less in amount than the value of the lands. He was also seised in right of his wife of a tract of 7…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of 'the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
In order to determine the matter in contest between the parties, little more seems to be necessary than to state their relative position to each other ,in regard to their mutual claims. Nathan Baker had a judgment, against Coates and Pennock for $300, in which Pennock was the surety merely of Coates, which bound the real estate .of Pennock., Coates had a judgment also against Pennock, of a subsequent date, which bound the same estate. On the 20th April 1839, Pennock anterior to those judgments being obtained against him, acquired his real…
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