Morton v. Weaver
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Armstrong coimty: Of October and November Term 1881. No. 177. Ejectment, by Peter S. Weaver against John Morton and Nancy Morton, his wife, for two lots of ground in the borough of - Freeport. On the trial, before Bradin, P. J., both parties claimed under Helen Johnston, wife of John Johnston, who died in 1859, seised of the premises in question.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Armstrong coimty: Of October and November Term 1881. No. 177. Ejectment, by Peter S. Weaver against John Morton and Nancy Morton, his wife, for two lots of ground in the borough of - Freeport. On the trial, before Bradin, P. J., both parties claimed under Helen Johnston, wife of John Johnston, who died in 1859, seised of the premises in question. The plaintiff claimed as purchaser at sheriff’s sale, and offered in evidence the record of a judgment obtained by him against Mrs. Johnston’s administrator, followed by a scire facias to bring in her heirs and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
The plaintiff below claimed under Mrs. Helen Johnston, who formerly owned the lots in controversy and died seised thereof in Í859, and, for the purpose of tracing title to himself, he gave in evidence the record of a judgment, rendered June 10th 1863, in his favor against James Cunningham, administrator of Mrs. Johnston, and also the record of a scire facias thereon to September term 1863, with notice to the 1ms-band and all the heirs at law of the decedent, except one, as to whose interest he was not permitted to recover. In the latter proceeding judgment was entered November 8th 1865, on an…
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