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8 Sadler 304

Critchlow v. Critchlow

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided October 31, 1887

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1887-10-31

This was ejectment for land, formerly belonging to plaintiff, and which defendants claimed as purchasers at a sheriff’s sale upon a judgment in favor of a stranger to this suit. Held: it was said that the objection must be made within a reasonable time. What is a reasonable time is defined in Crowell v. Meconkey, 5 Pa. 174; Wray v. Miller, 20 Pa. 115; and Mitchell v. Freedley, 10 Pa. 203.

Affirmed · Decided 1887-10-31

Per Curiam:

¶1If there were any irregularities in the sheriff’s sale of plaintiff’s land in 1874 he has been a long time in finding it out He allowed the sheriff’s deed to be acknowledged without objection; went out of possession and remained out until the present time; allowed the purchase money to be applied to the payment of his debts; made no objection to the possession of the defendants until he brought this suit in 1876, when the premises had enormously increased in value by reason of a productive oil well thereon.

¶2His long acquiescence and the changed circumstances forbid us to be astute in discovering technical defects in the defendant’s title. At most they are trivial, mere, irregularities which should have been taken advantage of before the acknowledgment of the sheriff’s deed. That is a panacea for irregularities.

¶3Judgment affirmed.

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