Woods' Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal by the committee of James Woods, who was a son of Richard Woods, who was a nephew of Janet Woods. The matter in dispute arose under the will of Nathan Ramsey, deceased.
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Appeal by the committee of James Woods, who was a son of Richard Woods, who was a nephew of Janet Woods. The matter in dispute arose under the will of Nathan Ramsey, deceased. He devised as follows: “All the residue of my goods, stocks, merchandise, and household furniture shall be indifferently appraised, and after such appraisement made, that the same shall be given unto my sister Margaret Ramsey, and her heirs for ever, together with the profits and income of my real estate and tenements, and to have free possession of the same during her natural life, or till she shall get married. Then I…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered, by
Lewis, J.
The will of Nathan Ramsey was executed on the 8th October, 1819, and the testator died in 1837. He devised the half part of his real estate “ to his legal and natural heirs, and their heirs for ever, to be divided among them in equal shares, to be share and share alike.” If the testator had died in 1819, at the time of making his will, the children of his nephews and nieces would have answered the description of “ heirs,” under the law then existing. But at the time of his death, in 1837, they did not answejr that description, inasmuch as the…
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