Tripner v. Abrahams
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certificate from the Supreme Court at JSTisi Prius. This was an action of ejectment brought by Isaac Abrahams and Washington D. Eckman, Susanna Eckman, and Hironomous Eckman, by their next friend Jane Eckman, against George O. Tripner, Hannah Tripner, and William P. Corlies, for the recovery of a lot of ground and buildings at the south-west corner of Twelfth and Brown streets, in the city of Philadelphia. The actual defendant was Hannah O. Tripner, wife of George Tripner.
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Certificate from the Supreme Court at JSTisi Prius. This was an action of ejectment brought by Isaac Abrahams and Washington D. Eckman, Susanna Eckman, and Hironomous Eckman, by their next friend Jane Eckman, against George O. Tripner, Hannah Tripner, and William P. Corlies, for the recovery of a lot of ground and buildings at the south-west corner of Twelfth and Brown streets, in the city of Philadelphia. The actual defendant was Hannah O. Tripner, wife of George Tripner. Both parties claimed title through the defendant George Tripner. The plaintiffs, by a sheriff’s sale under a judgment and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Thompson, J.
The trial below involved simply a question of property, and although in all such cases much is usually said about frauds and fraudulent transactions, yet until proof gives such characteristics to the matters involved, they proceed as civil issues, attended only by the legal presumptions belonging to such.
The plaintiff below claimed the property in question as belonging, at the time of the sheriff’s sale, to George Tripner, the husband of Hannah C. Tripner, the real defendant, and that it passed to them by the sheriff’s deed. The defendant,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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3Cited by8 opinions
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