Sayers v. Phillips
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 130, April T., 1897, by-plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Greene Co., June T., 1894, No. 28, on verdict for defendant. Ejectment. Before Craweord, P. J. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court. Verdict and judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appealed.
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Appeal, No. 130, April T., 1897, by-plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Greene Co., June T., 1894, No. 28, on verdict for defendant. Ejectment. Before Craweord, P. J. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court. Verdict and judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appealed. Error assigned. among others was (9) in refusing plaintiff’s sixth point, which point is as follows : “ 6. Under all the evidence in this case the verdict of the jury must be for the plaintiff for the land in dispute.”'
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Smith, J.,
The land in controversy is part of a tract which was conveyed to Thomas H. Phillips, the husband, and George W. Phillips, the stepson of the defendant, by deed dated September 30,1875. The grantees by deed dated June 26,1885, in which their wives joined, conveyed all the land to assignees for the benefit of creditors. Under an order of the common pleas, the assignees, August 13, 1887, made public sale of the tract to E. M. Sayers, who by deed dated December 30, 1892, conveyed it to the plaintiff. This action is brought to recover a part of this tract, described as…
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