Quinn's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Schuylkill county: Of January Term, 1878, No. 150. Appeal by David Quinn and Susan, his wife, from the decree of the court, confirming the report of the auditor appointed to distribute the fund arising from the sheriff’s sale of the property of said Susan Quinn.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Schuylkill county: Of January Term, 1878, No. 150. Appeal by David Quinn and Susan, his wife, from the decree of the court, confirming the report of the auditor appointed to distribute the fund arising from the sheriff’s sale of the property of said Susan Quinn. On the 28th of May 1866, Martin McGinness purchased two lots in Pottsville, from P. W. Shaefer, attorney for Walter S. Shaefer and wife, paying therefor $175, for which he took the attorney’s receipt as follows: “Pottsville, May 28th 1866. “Received from Martin McGinness, laborer, of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodward
No connection between the judgment-bond executed by Quinn and his wife and the instruments by which Mrs. Quinn’s title to the property sold by the sheriff became vested in her, was shown by the documentary evidence submitted to the auditor. The bond did not even recite that it was given for the purchase-money of the land. The contract made by P. W. Shaefer, as attorney for Walter S. Shaefer and his wife, with Martin McGinness, was made on the 28th of May 1866. McGinness assigned his interest in the contract to Susan Quinn on the 12th of July 1866, and Shaefer and his wife executed the deed to…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Dorrance v. ScottSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1838
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