Case Name: KNIGHT v. BANES
Court: Philadelphia District Court
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1837-03-15
Citations: 2 Miles 69
Docket Number: 
Parties: KNIGHT v. BANES.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases determined in the district court for the city and county of Philadelphia
Volume: 2
Pages: 69–70

Head Matter:
KNIGHT v. BANES.
March 15, 1837.
Rule to show cause why money should not he taken out of court.
A widow whose share has been charged on land taken under proceedings in partition in the Orphan’s Court, the interest of which is made recoverable by-distress, is entitled to receive out of the proceeds of the sheriff’s sale of personal property on the land, one year’s interest, under the act of assembly providing for the payment of one year’s rent out of the proceeds of such sales.
THIS was a fieri facias, and under it the defendant’s personal property, to wit, hay and grass, then being on a certain tract of land, were sold, and the proceeds wrere paid into court. The land was owned by the defendant, who took title to it by virtue of certain proceedings in partition in the Orphan’s Court, he accepting the same at the valuation, subject, according to the act of assembly and the decree of the court, to the following provision— “ the share of the widow, Sarah Banes, to remain charged on the premises, and the interest thereof to be annually paid her by the said B. R. Banes, and to be recovered by her by distress or otherwise during her natural life.” Interest had accrued at the time of the levy under the fief facias, of which Sarah Banes gave due notice to the sheriff, and she then obtained this rule to take out of court the amount of the same. (Vide Stroud’s Purd. tit. Rent.)
Earle, for the rule.
Ingraham, contra.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
rule must be made absolute. Mrs. Banes' This annual interest is charged on the land and is recoverable by distress. This according to the spirit of Turner v. Hauser, 1 Watts 423, in which the acts of assembly were construed, establishes a general principle which places her in the situation of a landlord, and gives her the same remedies a landlord has against a tenant. Although this exact case is not decided, yet, as one of these remedies, as provided by statute, is the taking out of the proceeds of sheriff's sales of personal property on the land, rents not exceed ing one year, where no distress has been made, but a claim has been made in due time on the sheriff, the applicant here is entitled to the benefit of the operation of the general principle.
Rule absolute.