Glassell's Adm'r v. Wilson's Adm'r
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Pennsylvania
Rule to show cause why the levy and sale of the land under a vendiuoni exponas should not be set aside. Suit was brought by Glas-sell against James Wilson in 1797, and judgment was entered in 1798; soon after which, Wilson died, and administration on his estate was granted to Bird Wilson. In 1S19 Glassell died, and a scire facias, to revive the judgment, was sued out in the name of Mr. Swan, a citizen of Maryland, his administrator.
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Rule to show cause why the levy and sale of the land under a vendiuoni exponas should not be set aside. Suit was brought by Glas-sell against James Wilson in 1797, and judgment was entered in 1798; soon after which, Wilson died, and administration on his estate was granted to Bird Wilson. In 1S19 Glassell died, and a scire facias, to revive the judgment, was sued out in the name of Mr. Swan, a citizen of Maryland, his administrator. The scire facias issued against Petit, as administrator de bonis non of James Wilson, who confessed judgment in November, 1819, and a. fieri facias issued, which…
1Opinion of the Court
WASHINGTON, Circuit Justice.
It is not sufficient to point out errors in these proceedings, unless it is done by a person who can introduce himself regularly into the case as a party authorised to question their regularity. Now in this case, the counsel obtained this rule do not appear for Mr. Bird Wilson, or for the purchasers at the sale, but they claim title in themselves to the land which was levied on and sold. At present, however, they appear before the court as entire strangers to this transaction, and can in no other way connect themselves with it but by showing their title to the…
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