Rittispaugh v. Lewis
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Wyoming county: Of January Term 1883, No. 278. This was a feigned issue, directed by the court to determine whether M. W. Dewitt and George Henning, mortgage creditors of Harriet E. Yorscheimer, and B. W..Lewis, her grantee, .or Wm.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Wyoming county: Of January Term 1883, No. 278. This was a feigned issue, directed by the court to determine whether M. W. Dewitt and George Henning, mortgage creditors of Harriet E. Yorscheimer, and B. W..Lewis, her grantee, .or Wm. M. Platt, Charles Rittispaugh, The Wyoming National Bank and George Henning, who were judgment creditors of Emil Yorscheimer, Harriet E. Yorscheimer’s husband, were entitled to the proceeds of certain real estate, sold by the sheriff, under a mortgage thereon, given in 1878 by Harriet E. Yorschiemer to George Henning. The…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
This feigned issue was directed by the court, for the purpose of determining whether certain mortgage creditors of Mrs. Yorscheimer, or the judgment creditors of her husband, are entitled to the proceeds of real estate sold by the sheriff on a mortgage given in 1878 by her and her husband to George Henning. The plaintiffs in the issue were M. W. Hewitt and George Henning, mortgagees, and B. W. Lewis, terre-tenant of the land thus sold; and the defendants therein were the present plaintiff in error and other judgment creditors of Emil Yorscheimer, whose judgments antedated the mortgages.
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2Cases cited1 opinion
- Mather v. ClarkSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1833
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