Reed v. Adams

Citations

• 172 Pa. 127
• 33 A. 700
• 1895 Pa. LEXIS 743

Syllabus

<p>Ejectment — Equitable title — Evidence.</p> <p>A plaintiff in ejectment is not entitled to recover upon a sheriff’s deed following a sheriff’s sale of an alleged equitable title in his predecessor, where there is no evidence of a written agreement between the record owner under whom defendant claimed and plaintiff’s predecessor, or a verbal agreement of sale followed by payment of purchase money, and possession of the land and improvements thereon, but only evidence of a writing in the nature of an agreement to sell to plaintiff’s predecessor signed by the son of the record owner, who had no authority to make such sale, and who subsequently refunded the money paid to him and received back the writing, and where the defendant took possession and made valuable improvements under a purchase from the record owner, and the evidence is positive, clear and undisputed that the defendant never heard of plaintiffs’ claim at the time of his purchase, and there was nothing upon the lot or upon the records which suggested that any person had any interest in it which qualified his vendor’s title to it.</p>