Riel v. Gannon

Citations

• 161 Pa. 289
• 29 A. 55
• 1894 Pa. LEXIS 688

Syllabus

<p>Equity — Equitable ejectment — Specific performance.</p> <p>A bill in equity is the proper proceeding on part of defendant in an equitable ejectment to compel performance by plaintiff of a condition of the verdict requiring a conveyance of the legal title.</p> <p>A person who takes a conveyance of the legal title to land with knowledge that his grantor has agreed to sell it to another person, takes it subject to the equitable estate already vested in the purchasers.</p> <p>In such a case the grantee of the legal title may maintain ejectment against the purchaser in possession to recover either the possession or the balance of the purchase money, and such an ejectment is an equitable one.</p>