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· 2/16/1897

Gibbs v. Tiffany

Citations

  • 4 Pa. Super. 29
  • 1897 Pa. Super. LEXIS 77

Syllabus

<p>Husband and wife — Tenancy per my et per tout — Estoppel.</p> <p>Where husband and wife are seized of laud per my et per tout the wife is not estopped by reason of an alleged arrangement made by the husband to induce a purchase of the property at a sheriff’s sale on a judgment which was not a lien against the property, there being no evidence of her presence at the interview or of any knowledge of it by her, or of any authority by her given to her husband to act for her in the premises.</p> <p>Ejectment — When adverse title may be set up by alleged ter re-tenants.</p> <p>A judgment on a scire facias quare executionem non against one whose interest in the land was not bound by the lien of the judgment, although summoned as a terre-tenant will not preclude such party from setting up his adverse title in an ejectment brought by the sheriff’s vendee.</p>

Judges: Beaver, Orlady, Reeder, Rice, Smith, Wickham, Willard

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