Dennison v. Page
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Fayette county. ■ This was a feigned issue directed by the Orphans’ Court to the Common Pleas, in which William Dennison and Mary his wife w.ere plaintiffs, and Henry L. Page and others were defendants, to determine whether Mary Dennison was an heir at law of Samuel Page, deceased.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Fayette county. ■ This was a feigned issue directed by the Orphans’ Court to the Common Pleas, in which William Dennison and Mary his wife w.ere plaintiffs, and Henry L. Page and others were defendants, to determine whether Mary Dennison was an heir at law of Samuel Page, deceased. In a proceeding in partition by the plaintiff in error on the real estate of Samuel Page, deceased, in the Orphans’ Court of Fayette county, Mary Dennison, wife of William Dennison, claimed to be a legitimate child of the said Samuel Page, and asked to be made a party to. said…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Knox, J.
Mary Dennison was born three months after the marriage of her mother with Samuel Page. Her right to any part of his real estate was denied upon the allegation that he was not her father. To determine the question of her legitimacy, an *422issue was certified by the Orphans’ Court of Fayette county to the Court of Common Pleas.
Upon the trial the defendant offered to prove by Mrs. Mary Page, the mother of Mrs. Dennison, that Samuel Page was not her father; that she was begotten before the witness was married to Samuel Page, and that he did not beget…
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