Donithen v. Independent Order of Foresters
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 6, Jan. T., 1904, by plaintiff, from judgment of Superior Court, Oct. T., 1902, No. 127, affirming judgment of C. P. Blair Co., Equity Docket B, No. 800, dismissing bill in equity in case of Ella Donithen v. Independent Order of Foresters and Lloyd Donithen. Appeal from the Superior Court. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was the judgment of the Superior Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
Frederick Donithen was a brakeman in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was about twenty-five years of age, had a wife, Ella Donithen, this appellant, to whom he had been married between three and four years, she at the time of marriage being only about eighteen years old. They had no children, lived together and kept house in Altoona up to September, 1898, when while in the service of the railroad company he was killed in an accident. After his marriage he became the owner, for the consideration of $1,200, of the dwelling in which they lived. Of this but $300…
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