Scott v. Fritz
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Philadelphia. This was a scire facias sur mortgage by Peter Fritz against Freeman Scott, executor, &c., of Jacob Haars, deceased. The mortgage was from Jacob Haars to Elizabeth Fritz, widow, Peter Fritz, Frederick Fritz and Susanna Laws, her children, on two lots, and was to secure the payment of $80 to the widow annually during life, and the principal sum of $1333.33 to her said children after death.
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Error to the District Court of Philadelphia. This was a scire facias sur mortgage by Peter Fritz against Freeman Scott, executor, &c., of Jacob Haars, deceased. The mortgage was from Jacob Haars to Elizabeth Fritz, widow, Peter Fritz, Frederick Fritz and Susanna Laws, her children, on two lots, and was to secure the payment of $80 to the widow annually during life, and the principal sum of $1333.33 to her said children after death. Peter Fritz afterwards bought one of the lots and leased the other from Haars; he also became the owner of the share of Frederick Fritz in the mortgage. Some years…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Agnew, J.
Fritz^ the plaintiff, was the owner of a mortgage given to him by Haars, of whom Scott, the defendant, is executor. Haars’s real estate having been sold by order of the Orphans’ Court, the lot in question, subject to the mortgage, vested by the sale in Dr. Elkinton, who sold it to Mrs. Urusta, the mother of Mrs. Scott, to' whom she devised it. After Mrs. Hrusta’s purchase she leased the lot to Fritz, the mortgagee, who at her decease owed her for several years’ rent. He owed rent also to Mrs. Scott, under whom he continued as a tenant. Fritz,…
2Cited by1 opinion
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