Updegrove v. Blum
Updegrove v. Blum
Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
We entirely agree with the learned court below in their views of this case. The right of entry under which the plaintiffs claim and must recover, if at all, commenced to run in April, 1853, immediately after the deed of Elizabeth Updegrove and possession of the premises were delivered to William Wagner. As the deed was void an action could have been brought to recover possession the next day, in the name and on behalf of Elizabeth Updegrove. But no action was brought and no entry was made or claimed for or by her up to the time of her death in 1857. The action brought by her husband, John Updegrove, in 1872 was upon his own title as tenant by the curtesy and did not conclude any of the heirs. It was
Both the letter and the spirit of the act of 1856 exclude the operation of any of the exceptions contained in the statute of limitations in favor of “ any person ” to maintain any action “ after thirty years shall have elapsed since the right of entry thereto accrued to any person within the exceptions aforesaid.” This case comes clearly within, and is governed by, the cases' of Hunt v. Wall, 75 Pa. 413, and Hogg v. Ashman, 83 Pa. 80. We have no disposition to overrule them or depart from them in any particular. We have frequently had occasion to commend and approve the act of 1856, as an act to secure the repose of titles, and see no reason to change our views upon that subject. The opinions of this court in the above named cases contain so full an expression of the reasons which support them that it is unnecessary to repeat those reasons here. The facts in Hogg v. Ashman, are substantially identical with those of this ease and, while that decision remains, the present judgment must stand.
Judgment affirmed.
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- DANIEL UPDEGROVE v. J. M. BLUM
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- In 1853, a married woman having title to real estate made a conveyance thereof in which her husband did not join, and possession was taken and continuously held thereunder. The wife died in 1857, and in 1872 the husband brought ejectment for his curtesy estate, but failed on a ground personal to himself. In 1886 the heirs of the wife brought ejectment: Held 1. That the said deed being void, the right of entry accrued in 1853, immediately after tire deed was made and possession taken, and the statute of limitations then began to run. 2. That the action brought by the husband, involving his own right only, did not toll the bar of the statute as against the said heirs. ■ 3. The letter and spirit of the act of April 22, 1856, P. L. 532, exclude the operation of any of the exceptions therein in favor of tire right to maintain an action for the recovery of lands, after thirty years shall have elapsed since the right of entry thereto accrued. 4. Hunt v. Wall, 75 Pa. 413; Hogg v. Ashman, 83 Pa. 80, followed.