Harshaw v. Harshaw
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 83, Jan. T., 1897, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., on case stated. Case stated to determine the ownership of a ground rent.
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Appeal, No. 83, Jan. T., 1897, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., on case stated. Case stated to determine the ownership of a ground rent. The case stated was as follows: Eliza Harshaw, of the city of Philadelphia, single woman, now deceased, was, during her lifetime, seized and possessed of two certain yearly ground rents of sixty-four dollars each, issuing out of lots contiguous, with two several briclc messuages or tenements thereon erected, one situate at the southwest comer of Seventeenth and Wharton streets, in the said city of Philadelphia, .... and known as No.…
1Opinion of the Court
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Mr. Chibe Justice Sterrett,
All the facts relating to this contention, as agreed upon by the parties, are set forth in the “ case stated for the opinion of the court below,” and need not be recited here. It is conceded that the single question for the decision of that court was, “ whether the ground rent of one thousand dollars purchased by the said Eliza Harshaw on or about the eleventh day of May, 1887, and issuing out of premises No. 1322 South Seventeenth street,.... is the property of said David Harshaw and Peter Boyd, trustees under the last will and testament of Eliza Harshaw,…
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