Irwin v. Keen
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was an appeal from a decree of the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia, dirtributing the proceeds of a ^sheriff’s sale of certain real estate, sold upon an execution in a suit of John Irwin against James C. Keen and Hetty Keen his wife, late Hetty Thomas.
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This was an appeal from a decree of the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia, dirtributing the proceeds of a ^sheriff’s sale of certain real estate, sold upon an execution in a suit of John Irwin against James C. Keen and Hetty Keen his wife, late Hetty Thomas. The fund in the Court below, which amounted to $1491 96, arose from the sale by the sheriff of certain real estate conveyed by James C. Keen and Hetty his wife, on the 6th of July, 1827, to William Seddon, in fee, subject to a mortgage of $1400, under which the sale was effected; and also subject to a ground rent of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Rogers, J.
The fund which is in Court for distribution arises from a judicial sale. The money is claimed by J. Poulterer, the trustee, under a voluntary deed, from one of the debtors, William Seddon, in trust for the grantor, and his daughter Mary Seddon ; by William Baker, assignee of Brown and Seddon, in trust for certain creditors therein named; and by judgment creditors of the firm of Brown and Seddon, subsequent in date to the assignment.
If, as is stated in the report of the auditor, the deed to Poulterer was a voluntary deed, (and we have no doubt…
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