Gordon v. Inghram
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Cfreene county. This was an action of ejectment, brought by defendant in error, who was plaintiff below, against the plaintiff in error, John B. Gordon, who was the landlord, and Harvey Renner, his tenant, for 130 acres of land.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Cfreene county. This was an action of ejectment, brought by defendant in error, who was plaintiff below, against the plaintiff in error, John B. Gordon, who was the landlord, and Harvey Renner, his tenant, for 130 acres of land. The plaintiff claimed that this land was devised to him for life by his father, and the defendant elaimed that the plaintiff, Thomas Inghram, owned a, fee simple in it by a former gift from his father ; but that whether Thomas Inghram owned a fee, or a life estate, his title was divested by sundry sheriff’s sales. The plaintiff…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered
by Lewis, J.
— In 1843, it was held that, under the provisions of the Act of 13th October, 1840, a life estate in land could not be sold on execution, after a lien creditor had applied for and obtained the appointment of a sequestrator. It was also held, at the same time, that the application for the appointment of a sequestrator might be made “at anytime before the sale,” Pentland v. Kelly, 6 W. & S. 483. On the 24th January, 1849, the legislature passed an act, declaring it to be the true intent and meaning of the Act of 1840, that the sale of a life…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Pentland v. KellySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1843