Woodruff v. Warner
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 61, Jan. T., 1896, by D. S. Warner, one of the defendants, from judgment of C. P. Bradford Co., Dec. T., 1894, No. 15, on verdict for plaintiff. Ejectment for a tract of land in Windham township. Before Dunham, P. J. At the trial, it appeared that in 1888 S. N. Bronson, William Cook, Benjamin Coykendall and S. H. Warner held judgments against William Harrington. Cook issued execution and levied upon the land in controversy.
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Appeal, No. 61, Jan. T., 1896, by D. S. Warner, one of the defendants, from judgment of C. P. Bradford Co., Dec. T., 1894, No. 15, on verdict for plaintiff. Ejectment for a tract of land in Windham township. Before Dunham, P. J. At the trial, it appeared that in 1888 S. N. Bronson, William Cook, Benjamin Coykendall and S. H. Warner held judgments against William Harrington. Cook issued execution and levied upon the land in controversy. Just before the sale Bronson bought the judgments of Cook and Coykendall at a large discount. Bronson bought the property at the sale. Subsequently Warner…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Green
The appellant, Warner, was the assignee of a judgment held by his assignor, against Harrington, at the time of the sheriff’s sale of the land in question, which then belonged to Harrington. The judicial sale at which Bronson purchased the land was held in 1888, and the terms of that sale were duly carried out by a sheriff’s deed to Bronson, and by the payment by Bronson to Cook and Coykendall, the other judgment creditors of Harrington, of the amount agreed upon for their judgments under the agreement made by Bronson with them at the time of the sheriff’s sale in…
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