Bookwalter v. Stewart

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

The question here is one of venue.

Plaintiffs brought an action of assumpsit in Cumberland County, alleging in their complaint that defendants, acting as trustees under a will, conveyed to them by deed in 1944 three certain tracts of land aggregating 208 acres, the larger portion of which was situated in Franklin County; that plaintiffs did not record this deed in Franklin County until 1950; that meanwhile, in 1945, defendants, as individuals, “fraudulently” conveyed a tract of 24 acres of this land, all of which was situated in Franklin County, to one Zeek,…