Pontius v. Walls
Pontius v. Walls
Opinion of the Court
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This is an action of ejectment in which the plaintiff claims to have the right of possession or title to a certain half lot of ground situate in the borough of Lewisburg, in the county of-Union and state of Pennsylvania. He bases his claim on his purchase at a sheriff’s sale, of the half lot which he alleges was held by Walls, Smith & Company as partnership property. The partnership of Walls, Smith & Company was dissolved, by the
The twenty-six assignments of error occupying twenty-five pages in the paper-book of the plaintiff may be considered in their order. The assignments, from the first to the ninth inclusive, complain of error in overruling the plaintiff’s objections to the defendants’ offers in evidence of certain deeds, writs of scire facias, a certain judgment and execution against Walls, Smith & Company, a sheriff’s deed to John W. Bucher, and to show how the money, arising from the sale of the half lot to Bucher was appropriated. Upon a careful consideration of these assignments we find no error. The next assignments, from the tenth to the fifteenth inclusive, complain of the excerpts
Judgment affirmed.
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- Partnership—Real estate—Tenants in common—Deed. Where real estate occupied by a partnership consisting of two members is owned as follows, one undivided third by one partner, a second undivided third by the other partner, and the remaining third by the two partners as partnership property, and subsequently a new firm is formed by the addition of another person to whom is given a one-ninth interest in the partnership business, and to whom is conveyed a one-ninth interest in the real estate, the real estate belongs to the three partners as tenants in common, and is not a partnership asset.