Jamison v. Dimock
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Incoming county: Of May Term 1880, No. 177. Ejectment by Mary A. Jamison against Gordon Z. Dimock and Charlotte E. Dimock, his wife, to recover a lot in the city of Williamsport. Both parties to the suit claimed title from Peter Herdic.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Incoming county: Of May Term 1880, No. 177. Ejectment by Mary A. Jamison against Gordon Z. Dimock and Charlotte E. Dimock, his wife, to recover a lot in the city of Williamsport. Both parties to the suit claimed title from Peter Herdic. The plaintiff as follows: Deed of Peter Herdic to George P. Barber, dated November 3d 1877. Mortgage, same date, George P. Barber to Peter Herdic to secure the payment of $6000. Assignment of said mortgage by Peter Herdic to Lewis Jamison and Mary A. Jamison, January 15th 1878. Scire facias on above mortgage and judgment…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
_ Both parties claim under Peter Herdic who, in 1874 and prior thereto, was owmer in fee of the lot in controversy. The plaintiff gave in evidence the deed of Herdic and wife to Barber, dated and recorded in November 1877, and mortgage of same date from Barber to Herdic; also record of the scire facias and judgment thereon, followed by sheriff’s sale and deed of March 1879, thus vesting in her the legal title previously held by Herdic, and prima facie entitling her to a verdict. The defendants, on the other hand, relied on an equitable title in Mrs. Dimock, founded on a parol contract of sale…
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