Myers v. Boyd
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Crawford county: Of O-ctober and November Term 1880, No. 860. Scire facias sur mortgage by David T. Boyd and others against Sidney J. Myers and the Second National Bank of Titusville, terretenant.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Crawford county: Of O-ctober and November Term 1880, No. 860. Scire facias sur mortgage by David T. Boyd and others against Sidney J. Myers and the Second National Bank of Titusville, terretenant. On the 15th of June 1872, Sidney J. Myers signed a-mortgage which was given to Boyd, upon eight acres of land in Crawford county, the consideration therefor being $2000. At the foot of the mortgage was the following: “ Crawford county, ss: Subscribed and acknowledged before me, this eighth day of July 1872, A. M. Smith, Recorder.” The mbrtgage was for five…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice GreIEn
The Act of 28th May 1715, sect. 2, 1 Purd. Dig. 460, pi. 10, provides as follows: “All bargains and sales, deeds and conveyances of lands, tenements and hereditaments in this province, may be recorded in the said office; but before the same shall be so recorded, the parties concerned shall procure the grantor or bargainor named in such deed, or else two or more of the witnesses (who were present at the execution thereof) to come before one of the justices of the pea'ce of the proper county or city where the lands lie, who is hereby empowered to take such acknowledgment of the grantor, if one,…
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