Barnard v. Kell
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 166, Jan. T., 1921, by plaintiffs, from decree of C. P. Perry Co., Nov. T., 1919, No. 3, dismissing bill in equity, in case of Jennie R. Barnard et al., heirs of Emma E. Boden, deceased, v. William S. Kell and Minnie D. Kell, his wife. Bill in equity to revoke deed. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court dismissed the bill. Plaintiff appealed. Error assigned, among others, was decree, dismissing exceptions by plaintiff, quoting it.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Schaffer,
Emma E. Boden was a childless widow, sixty-six years of age, whose nearest relatives, appellants, were cousins, with whom she was not intimate. At the time of her husband’s death, May 8, 1919, she was in poor health, suffering from pernicious anemia, an incurable disease; she died July 12,1919.
William S. Kell, defendant, was tenant on one of decedent’s farms, and had occupied it as such for many years. Kell and his wife were on terms of intimate friendliness with Mrs. Boden; the relation which he occupied toward her, in addition to that of tenant, was as…
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