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1 George W. Edwards, Complainant vs. James G. Edwards, George G. Presbury, James B. Billings, and Thomas Edwards, Jr., Defendants 1858

handle is hein.trials/abjx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GEORGE W. EDWARDS, Complainant, In the Supreme Court VS. of Pennsylvania JAMES -G. EDWARDS, GEORGE G. for the Eastern District PRESBURY, JAMES B. BILLINGS, ) thereof. and THOMAS EDWARDS, JR., De-j fendants. I In Equity. To the Honorable the Judges of the Supreme Court. George W. Edwards, brings this bs bill against James G. Edwards, Ge,:rge G. Presbury, JaLnus B. Billings and Thorn: Ed- wards, Jr., and thereupon your Orator complaining saith that in the spring of 1>-50, he formed the design of erecting in Chestnut Street, on the premises next mentioned, a large building, to be leased and used for a boarding house, and that in pursuance of his said design, and on or about the 30th day of May, A. D., 1<., the complainant purehas<d from William Chancellor, Henry Chancellor, and James Brown, executors of the last will of Hannah Chancellor, deceased, a lot of ground, cntainingz in front on the north side of Chest- nut Street, east of Ninth Strt-t, fifty feet, and extending northward to Grape Street, for the price or sum of thirty-three thousand dollars; and that for motives hereinafter mentioned, he caused the legal title thereof to be conveyed to his brother, the said James G. Edwards. That the complainant paid therefor to the said vcndors, eleren thou- sand dollars of his own money in cash, and he caused the said James G. Edwards to give them his mortgage- upon said lot for the remainder of said purchase money, that is to say, for twenty-two thousand dollars. That afterwards and before the purchase next hereinafter mentioned, he changed his design aforesaid, and deter- mined to erect a larger building, to be leased and used as a hotel, and in pursuance thereof, and on or about the luth day of August, A. D., 1S.50, he also purchased from Sarah Wharton Twells, twenty-five feet of ground eastward of and adju-,ining the above lot, and extending northward to said Grape Street, for the sum of twenty thousand dollars, and that from the m-'tives herein- after mentioned, he caused the legal title of said lot also to be con- veyed to the said James G. Edwards ; and he further shAows, that of the said last mentioned purchase-money, he paid of his own money five thousand dollars in cash, and caused the said James G. Edwards to give for the remaining sum of fifteen thousand dollars his mortgage on said lot. Your orator further shows, that soon after he purchased the said lots, he procured from J. M['Arthur, Jr., Architect, plans, and caused estimates of the cost of erecting said hotel to be made for him

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