Burgess v. Burgess
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Bradford county : Of January Term 1885, No. 285. Assumpsit by Russell P. Burgess, administrator, d. b. n. of Eben G. Terry, deceased, against Austin P. Burgess, administrator, c. t. a. of George Terry, deceased, to recover damages for the breach of an alleged contract to devise real estate. On the trial the following facts appeared: In 1869 George Terry, then about seventy years of age, owned and lived upon the land in question.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Bradford county : Of January Term 1885, No. 285. Assumpsit by Russell P. Burgess, administrator, d. b. n. of Eben G. Terry, deceased, against Austin P. Burgess, administrator, c. t. a. of George Terry, deceased, to recover damages for the breach of an alleged contract to devise real estate. On the trial the following facts appeared: In 1869 George Terry, then about seventy years of age, owned and lived upon the land in question. His son, Eben Teny, then twenty-nine years of age, with bis wife and child, lived on the farm with his father, having had his…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark
This action is brought to recover damages for the breach of *316an alleged, contract to devise real estate. George Terry in the year 1869 owned, and resided upon, the land in question ; he was about seventy-one years of age, physically infirm, and therefore unable to carry on the work at the farm. His son, Eben G. Terry, who was twenty-nine years of age and married, ’ had from childhood lived, with him, and for years had worked the farm for him. It is claimed by the plaintiff that in the year 1869, the old man agreed with Eben to devise to him a particular portion of the land in consideration…
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