Asay v. Lieber

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Asay v. Lieber, 92 Pa. 377 (Pa. 1880)
1880 Pa. LEXIS 67
Gordon, Green, Mercur, Paxson, Sharswood, Sterrett, Trunkey

Asay v. Lieber

Opinion of the Court

The judgment of the Supreme Court was entered January 19th 1880,

Per Curiam.

The affidavit of defence does not allege that at *379the time the property — on which the mortgage for purchase-money was given — was conveyed to the defendant — the plaintiff had not a good title to the alley-way. This was in 1851, and for aught that appears, the defendant has lost the privilege of the alley, by his own neglect to prosecute his right to it. When a contract of sale has been executed by a deed, the vendee, in order to defend against a security for the purchase-money, must show a title positively bad. The representations made by the vendor at the time of the sale of her right to the alley-way, are clearly immaterial, unless they were false, and the mere fact of an obstruction then existing did not tend to prove them so.

Judgment affirmed.

Reference

Full Case Name
Asay versus Lieber
Status
Published