Pifer v. Locke
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 292, Jan. T., 1902, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Centre Co., Aug. T., 1902, No. 162, in case of Harriet M. Pifer et al. v. Blanche M. Locke. Case stated to determine the marketability of real estate.
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Appeal, No. 292, Jan. T., 1902, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Centre Co., Aug. T., 1902, No. 162, in case of Harriet M. Pifer et al. v. Blanche M. Locke. Case stated to determine the marketability of real estate. The court below, Love, P. J., filed the following opinion: This is a case stated to determine the legal title or rather the character of the title to a certain messuage, tenement and lot of ground situate in the Borough of Bellefonte: devised to Harriet M. Pifer under the last will and testament of George Livingston, deceased, and which the plaintiffs have sold by articles of…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
By articles of March 14, 1902, plaintiffs agreed to convey to defendant a title in fee simple to a lot on Allegheny street in the borough of Bellefonte. The lot in question had been devised to Harriett M. Pifer by her father,- George Livingston, by his will dated June 27, 1872. The fourth clause of the will contains this devise as follows:
“ I will and devise to my daughter Harriet M. Pifer the house and lot on Allegheny Street in Bellefonte (formerly my mansion house), for and during her natural life, and at her death I devise and bequeath the same unto her children or issue in fee…
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