Gumaer v. Barber
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 511, Jan. T., 1896, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Lackawanna Co., Noy. T., 1892, No. 132, on verdict for plaintiff. Ejectment for a tract of land in Benton township. Before Edwards, J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff. Defendant appealed. Error assigned among others was (3) portion of the charge quoted in the opinion of the Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
Williams Barber, of Benton township, Lackawanna county, died in 1875, leaving to survive him a widow and eight children, among them a son, this defendant. The decedent left a will, *34of which, he appointed Coleman Wells the executor. He devised a life estate to his widow in all his lands and, at her death, provided for an equal division of his estate among his children. Early in life, he had purchased a farm consisting of two separate tracts, one containing thirty-nine acres, the other fifty acres ; on this farm he resided for many years, and reared his family; but in…
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