Burke v. Harkins

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Sadler,

Martin Burke was the owner of valuable real estate in the City of Pittsburgh, subject to certain liens. Executions were issued and the properties sold in the fall of 1914 to one Callahan. Efforts were made to preserve the interests of Martin, and an arrangement was perfected through Thomas Burke, Jr., a nephew and employee, with one Kaufmann, by which the ownership of the sheriff’s vendee became vested in the latter, subject to an agreement by the terms of which the title was to be re-transferred upon the performance of certain conditions. As a result of the…