Hadden v. Clark
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Fayette county. Ejectment for a tract of 400 acres of land, in North Union township. Armstrong Hadden against John Clark, Joseph Clark, Thomas M‘Lean, Margaret Peer, and Alfred Patterson. Tried January, 1853, and verdict and judgment for defendants below. On the trial, the title was admitted to have been in Col. Alex. M‘Lean.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Fayette county. Ejectment for a tract of 400 acres of land, in North Union township. Armstrong Hadden against John Clark, Joseph Clark, Thomas M‘Lean, Margaret Peer, and Alfred Patterson. Tried January, 1853, and verdict and judgment for defendants below. On the trial, the title was admitted to have been in Col. Alex. M‘Lean. The plaintiff then showed judgment in the Common Pleas of Eayette county, in favor of Jane Allen v. Alexander M'Lean, No. 136, October Term, 1822. Entered July 17,1822. Stay one year. By writing filed, dated March 7,1826, defendant…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered December 15,1853, by
Knox, J.
— The land for which this action of ejectment was brought, originally belonged to Alexander M'Lean, and was twice sold by the sheriff of Eayette county, as his property. The first sale was in 1824, and the second in 1843. The defendants claim title under the first, and the plaintiff under the second sale. The plaintiff alleges that the first sheriff’s sale passed no title as against creditors, because Brown, the purchaser, in *109pursuance of an arrangement between himself and Col. M£Lean, or his sons, induced persons not to bid,…
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