Thompson's Executors v. Lloyd
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Clearfield county This was an amicable action between Barbara Lloyd, legatee of James Thompson, deceased, and William Feath and James McEwen, executors of said deceased, in which the following case was stated for the opinion of the court:— James Thompson died in 1862, without issue, having first made and published his last will and testament, dated June 2d 1862. Barbara Lloyd, the plaintiff above named, was his sister, and one of the legatees…
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Error to the Common Pleas of Clearfield county This was an amicable action between Barbara Lloyd, legatee of James Thompson, deceased, and William Feath and James McEwen, executors of said deceased, in which the following case was stated for the opinion of the court:— James Thompson died in 1862, without issue, having first made and published his last will and testament, dated June 2d 1862. Barbara Lloyd, the plaintiff above named, was his sister, and one of the legatees named in the will. On the 16th of May 1861, he had executed a deed to her, written by and acknowledged before William…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Woodward, C. J.
The two acres devised to Barbara Clough for life were part of testator’s farm on which he lived, and at her death the said two acres were to revert back to said farm and become the property of Barbara Lloyd (the testator’s sister), “ together with other lands which I have already conveyed to her.” The allusion here was to the deed which the testator had made in his lifetime, and left in the hands of Mr. Feath, and which was a formal conveyance of the whole farm of two hundred and twenty acres (including the two acres to the said Barbara…
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