Watson's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Lycoming county: Of May Term 1879, No. 210. Appeal of Oliver Watson and Oliver Watson, Jr., in right of his wife, formerly Ella R. Potter, from the decree of the court making distribution of the proceeds of the sheriff’s sale of the real estate of Joseph H. Wonderly and of Ozias Potter, deceased, in the hands of Albert T. Nichols, his administrator.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Lycoming county: Of May Term 1879, No. 210. Appeal of Oliver Watson and Oliver Watson, Jr., in right of his wife, formerly Ella R. Potter, from the decree of the court making distribution of the proceeds of the sheriff’s sale of the real estate of Joseph H. Wonderly and of Ozias Potter, deceased, in the hands of Albert T. Nichols, his administrator. John B. Hall, being the owner in fee of certain real- estate known as the “Foundry Property,” in the city of Williamsport, in 1864, entered into articles of agreement to sell the same to Albert T. Nichols.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mercur
This fund, in contention, is the proceeds of a sale of lands formerly owned by Ozias Potter and Joseph H. Wonderly, as tenants in common. While thus owning the land, in November 1866, they jointly executed a mortgage thereon to Albert T. Nichols, to secure the payment of eleven bonds, ten of $2000 each, and 'one of $4000. In December of the next year, Nichols assigned nine of the $2000 bonds to one Piper, and .guaranteed their payment. About the same time, Nichols borrowed money of one Porter, and gave him the $4000 bond as collateral security. Nichols failed to pay Porter, and the latter…
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