Brown v. Penn

On the 29tb of December, 1877, Mrs. Ellen J. Decker, wife of Henry B. Mills, purported, by public act before F. J. Laiser, notary public, to convey to Mrs. Sarah. Magdalina Phister, wife of A. H. Brown, certain real estate in this city. As required by law, application was made to D. B. Penn, Kegister of Conveyances, for the certificate of non-alienation by the vendor, Mills’ wife, and the said register furnished a certificate declaring, as provided bylaw, that it did not appear from the records of the conveyance office; that the said Mrs. Mills had ever alienated the said property. This…