Supreme Court of Pennsylvania May 6, 1863 (Wallace v. Harmstad)

The opinion of the court was delivered, by

Woodward, J.

It is not to be doubted that the cases of Arrison v. Harmstad, 2 Barr 191, and Wallace v. Harmstad, 3 Harris 462, do decide that by reason of the fraudulent alteration of the deeds, reserving the ground-rent in question, neither an action of debt or covenant would lie on any one of the deeds for reco*494very of the rent, nor is it