Miller v. Griffith
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 89, Oct. T., 1920, by plaintiffs, from order of C. P. Westmoreland Co., May T., 1918, No. 39, discharging rule for judgment for plaintiffs n. o. v. verdict for defendant, in case of Sarah M. B. Miller, for use of Mary E. Brin'ker, for use of Ida M. Griffith, and for use of M. W. Crownover and A. W. Crownover, Administrators of estate of J. C. Crownover, deceased, v. M. E. Griffith and Ida May Griffith, with notice to Jacob L. McKeever, terre-tenant.
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Appeal, No. 89, Oct. T., 1920, by plaintiffs, from order of C. P. Westmoreland Co., May T., 1918, No. 39, discharging rule for judgment for plaintiffs n. o. v. verdict for defendant, in case of Sarah M. B. Miller, for use of Mary E. Brin'ker, for use of Ida M. Griffith, and for use of M. W. Crownover and A. W. Crownover, Administrators of estate of J. C. Crownover, deceased, v. M. E. Griffith and Ida May Griffith, with notice to Jacob L. McKeever, terre-tenant. Scire facias sur mortgage. Before Copeland, P. J. The opinion, of the Supreme Court states the facts. At the trial there was a…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Me. Justice Frazer,
Josiah Brinker died in 1889, leaving a will in which he devised to his daughter, Sarah Miller, his home*411stead farm, situated in Penn Township, Westmoreland County, and containing 123 acres, 95 perches. Decedent’s wife, Mary Brinker, having elected to take against the will, the court, in decreeing to the daughter the farm which was designated as “Purpart B” in partition proceedings of decedent’s estate, fixed the dower interest in the land at $197.74 annually, to secure the payment of which Mrs. Miller filed a recognizance in the sum of $3,295.84. The latter…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Estate of DanhouseSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1889
- Griffith ex rel. Crownover v. McKeeverSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1918
- Kreamer v. FlemingSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1899
- Fenton v. FentonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1904
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