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1 Pennyp. 468

Beeson v. Brownfield

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided November 28, 1881

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1881-11-28

Debt by Isaac Brownfield, John Collins, and George B. Hutchinson, executors of Basil Brownfield, against William Beeson, John Snider, Eobert Hogsett, Ayers Nixon, and Thomas B. Schnatterly, for instalments of interest on á bond given for the purchase-money of a tract of land.

Decided 1881-11-28

Per Curiam:

¶1It is well settled by Ludwick v. Huntzinger, 5 W. & S., 51, and many other cases, that when articles for the sale of land have been executed by a deed, in an action on the securities given for the purchase-money, it is not sufficient for the grantee to give in evidence a defective title; he must prove a superior indisputable title in a third person who is asserting his right thereto by virtue of such title. Nothing of the kind was shown here. Victor’s evidence failed to show a good title by adverse possession for twenty-one years. Cutting timber, and coaling the land, did not constitute such a possession, and the little house on it, whatever it was, had been there only eight or ten years.

¶2Judgment affirmed.

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