Grant v. Hook
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. Covenant in the Court of Common Pleas of Warren county, brought by George Grant, plaintiff in error, and plaintiff below, against Jacob Hpolc, defendant in error, and defendant below, to recover the purchase money due upon a contract under seal be* tween the plaintiff and defendant, by which the plaintiff undertook to convey a legal title to the defendant, in fee simple, free from incumbrance, for two tracts of land, in the counties of Warren and MiKean, belonging…
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IN ERROR. Covenant in the Court of Common Pleas of Warren county, brought by George Grant, plaintiff in error, and plaintiff below, against Jacob Hpolc, defendant in error, and defendant below, to recover the purchase money due upon a contract under seal be* tween the plaintiff and defendant, by which the plaintiff undertook to convey a legal title to the defendant, in fee simple, free from incumbrance, for two tracts of land, in the counties of Warren and MiKean, belonging to the estate of Thomas Grant, deceased, and the defendant contracted to purchase the same of the plaintiff. The…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Duncan, J.
The merits of this case depend on two questions of law; — whether, under the will of Thomas Grant, authorizing his executors to sell his lands, for the payment of debts, and education of minor children, the vendee, on payment of the purchase money to his executors, would obtain a good title, unless prior mortgages, judgments in the county, or recognizances, bound the land; or whether he was to see to the application of the purchase money to the payment of the testator’s debts. Second, whether *262the clause in the will, respecting the debt of…
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