Kiskaddon v. Dodds
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 192, April T., by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Butler Co., Marcli T., 1900, No. 51, on verdict for defendant in case of Emma J. Kiskaddon v. Findley B. Dodds, W. M. Starr, Peter Christie, trading as Starr & Company, and Thomas W. Phillips. Ejectment for land in Penn township. Before White, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Superior Court. The court gave binding instructions for defendant. Verdict and judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appealed.
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Appeal, No. 192, April T., by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Butler Co., Marcli T., 1900, No. 51, on verdict for defendant in case of Emma J. Kiskaddon v. Findley B. Dodds, W. M. Starr, Peter Christie, trading as Starr & Company, and Thomas W. Phillips. Ejectment for land in Penn township. Before White, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Superior Court. The court gave binding instructions for defendant. Verdict and judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appealed. Error assigned was in giving binding instructions for defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
John Martin died on August 29, 1879, seized of a property in the borough of Butler, on which he resided, and also of a farm in the township of Penn. The latter he devised to his wife for life, or during widowhood, and at her death to his children then living and the issue of any who might not be living at her death. He directed his executors to sell the former and to apply the surplus remaining after payment of his debts to the improvement of the farm.
The widow died on October 25, 1897, and on February 13, 1900, the plaintiff, one of the six children of the testator,…
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