Prager's Estate
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 43, April T., 1918, by Emma Prager, from decree of O. C. Allegheny County, April T., 1915, No. 25, sustaining exceptions to adjudication in the Estate of George Prager, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. Before Trimble, J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. The court sustained the exceptions. Error assigned was the decree of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Keller, J.,
On November 12, 1909, George Prager made his will, by which he devised his farm of 110 acres in Indiana Township to his son, John P. Prager, conditioned on the payment to his estate of the sum of five thousand dollars. Several years later, he “granted and conveyed” all the oil and gas in and under said farm to one H. A. Cypher, for the consideration of one dollar and one-eighth of “all oil produced and saved from said premises to be delivered in the pipe line......free of charge,” and if gas only was found, “five dollars per annum per pound minute pressure taken in or…
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