Feely v. Hoover

Citations

• 130 Pa. 107
• 18 A. 611
• 1889 Pa. LEXIS 1166

Syllabus

<p>1. The purchase by an attorney of real estate at a sheriff’s sale, after inducing a competing bidder to withdraw, but exclusively in the interest of his client and without any agreement or arrangement for the benefit of the judgment defendant, will not create a trust for the latter.</p> <p>2. The surrender of a deed to the grantor and the execution and delivery by him of a new deed for the same property, of the same date of the former, to a new grantee by direction of the first grantee, will be inoperative as against the lien of a judgment entered against the first grantee while he held the title.</p>