Rakowski v. Rosenthal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 98, Oct. T., 1919, by defendant, from judgment of O. P. Allegheny Co., Oct. T., 1917, No. 2085, on verdict for plaintiffs in case of George Rakowski and Sophia Rakowski, his wife, v. Samuel Rosenthal. Ejectment for land in Homestead Borough. Before Shaper, P. J. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff by the instruction of the court. Defendant appealed. Error assigned was refusal of motion for judgment for defendant n. o. v.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Brown,
The plaintiffs in this ejectment, who are husband and wife, showed a good title by entireties to the land in dispute, acquired by a deed to them dated April 27, 1911. The defendant’s predecessor in title was the vendee at a sheriff’s sale of the plaintiffs’ interest in the land. The sheriff’s deed, dated April 17,1915, and the judgment in the court of common pleas upon which the execution had *110issued, were offered in evidence and established title in the defendant, as the vendee of the sheriff’s vendee, to the interest which the plaintiffs had formerly owned.…
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- Barber v. ChandlerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1851
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