Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Volume 1

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ...she rifls sale, by Pattison, the defendant in error. In 1843, it was sold by the sheriif, as Pattison s property, and purchased by James Spriggs. Pattison desiring Spriggs to purchase the property, and hold it in trust for him, which Spriggs refused. Dr. Stevens held a claim against Pattison, which he wished to secure, and purchased the land from Spriggs, at the request of Pattison, and with the view of securing his debt. At the time Stevens purchased, Pattison told him if he did not pay him his debt and purchase-money, and interest, within one year, he, Stevens, was to have the land. The time expired; the money was not repaid to Stevens, and Pattison again called, and made further promises of payments, but the doctor, as he testified, having no confidence in him, refused to let him on the land, and nailed the doors of the house. About the first of April, 1844, whilst Horn was removing the goods of the widow Pattison (the mother of the defendant) to the land, and Dr. Stevens still refusing possession, Pattison brought Horn to Stevens, and on Horn s agreement to give his notes to the doctor for his claim, he, Stevens, permitted the goods of the widow to be moved into the house. Horn gave his This case was in this court in 1853, the report of which immediately precedes. notes to Stevens, to run for six months, or a year, on the agreement that on Pattison s failure to pay the same within the time, that Horn had to make payment, the deed was to be made to the latter. The time expired. Pattison did not pay, and Horn was compelled to lift the notes with his own money, and Stevens and wife made the deed to him. When the arrangement was made between Stevens, Pattison and Horn, the latter told Stevens he would not...