Homewood People's Bank v. Marshall
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 203, Oct. T., 1908, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co., June T., 1905, No. 222, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Homewood People’s Bank v. William Marshall and Robert Harvey Marshall. Ejectment for land situate in the eighth ward of the city of Pittsburg.
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Appeal, No. 203, Oct. T., 1908, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co., June T., 1905, No. 222, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Homewood People’s Bank v. William Marshall and Robert Harvey Marshall. Ejectment for land situate in the eighth ward of the city of Pittsburg. Before Shafer, J. At the trial plaintiff made the following offer: We offer in evidence the deed from Tom Marshall and wife, Alice Marshall, to Mary Ann Marshall, dated May 27, 1903, recorded on June 26, 1903, in Deed Book, vol. 1260, p. 295, of the deed books in the records of the recorder’s office of…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Brown,
The real estate which is the subject of this ejectment was conveyed by Tom Marshall on January 7, 1903, to the appellants, his two brothers. At that time he was heavily indebted, and this his brothers knew. His indebtedness to the Home-wood People’s Bank, the appellee, amounted to $8,500.27. In the following May and June it brought two suits against him and in one of them recovered a judgment for $3,833.12. When these suits were brought the appellants had not recorded their deed, but placed it on record before the judgment was obtained against their grantor.…
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