Harris v. Bell
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster Ejectment by Mary Ann Barbara Bell, the plaintiff below, against Robert Harris, the defendant below, for a house and lot in Harrisburg, in which a verdict and judgment were rendered for the plaintiff below.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster Ejectment by Mary Ann Barbara Bell, the plaintiff below, against Robert Harris, the defendant below, for a house and lot in Harrisburg, in which a verdict and judgment were rendered for the plaintiff below. On the loth January, 1795, the defendant below, Harris, was seised in fee of the property in question, and an article of agreement was executed between him and Harman A. Layer, by which the said Harris agreed to execute a deed on or before the 1st February, 1800, and Layer in consideration thereof, agreed to pay the sum of ¿675; ¿615 thereof,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered oy
Duncan, J.
The plaintiff in error has assigned several reasons for the reversal of this judgment, yet the whole may be compressed within one narrow proposition: was the defendant in error, or the plaintiff below, bound to tender to the’plaintiff in error, the amount of purchase money due on the articles between her father, Martin Rapp, and Peter Bricker, the surviving executor of Harman A. Layer, before bringing the action and since it was in court, on the trial ? For it is certain, that Robert Harris, is entitled to that amount with interest, making…
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