Billmyer v. Billmyer

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Moschzisker,

This appeal involves the construction of the will of John Billmyer, who died August 21,1895. The court below at first concluded that Hannah Billmyer, decedent’s widow, who departed this life May 31, 1925, died so seized of the property left by her late husband that she possessed the power to devise it in fee, and that she had so willed the premises in controversy to her son Louis Billmyer, defendant in the present action of partition. The jury gave an instructed verdict for defendant; plaintiffs, three other children of decedents, asked for judgment n.…