Rush v. Lewis
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was a bill in equity filed in tbe Supreme Court, on tbe part of Richard Henry Rush v. Lawrence Lewis and James Henry Blight, surviving trustees under the will of George Blight, deceased, and Murray Rush, an infant.
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This was a bill in equity filed in tbe Supreme Court, on tbe part of Richard Henry Rush v. Lawrence Lewis and James Henry Blight, surviving trustees under the will of George Blight, deceased, and Murray Rush, an infant. The hill was hy the plaintiff as appointee of his late wife, Sarah Ann Rush, who was a daughter of George- Blight; and was against the defendants as surviving trustees under the will of the said Blight, and prayed for a conveyance of the legal title in certain real estate devised hy said Blight in trust for his said daughter’s sole and separate use during life, with power to…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered-, by
Black, C. J.
— George Blight devised certain real estate to his *76executors in trust to pay the rents and profits to his daughter, Mrs. Rush, for her separate use during her life, and after her death in trust for the use of such persons as she might appoint by will, and in default of such appointment for the use of her children in fee. Before Mrs. Rush’s death, she executed the power of appointment by devising the estate to her husband and only son, with an executory devise over of the son’s share in case he should die under the age of twenty-one. This…
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