Ritter's Estate
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 194, Oct. T., 1912, by Charles Elmer Phillippi, from decree of O. C. Berks Co., dismissing petition for partition in Estate of Elizabeth Ritter, deceased. Petition for partition. Before Bland, P. J. The case turned upon the construction of the following clause in the will of Elizabeth Ritter.
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Appeal, No. 194, Oct. T., 1912, by Charles Elmer Phillippi, from decree of O. C. Berks Co., dismissing petition for partition in Estate of Elizabeth Ritter, deceased. Petition for partition. Before Bland, P. J. The case turned upon the construction of the following clause in the will of Elizabeth Ritter. “I give and bequeath to my daughter Harriet, my new house, adjoining on the East Magdalena Ritter, in Cherry Alley, in the City of Reading, on condition, however that my daughter Harriet accepts the said house at eight hundred dollars, and then my daughter Harriet shall have the said house in…
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Head, J.,
The will of Elizabeth Ritter contained, inter alia, the following devise: “I give and bequeath to my daughter Harriet my new house .... on condition, however, that my daughter accepts the said house at Eight Hundred Dollars, and then my daughter Harriet shall have the said house in possession as long as she lives and enjoy the rents and income thereof, and after her death be divided in equal shares among her bodily heirs. Should, however, none of the bodily heirs of my daughter Harriet arrive at the age of twenty-one years and leave no lawful bodily heirs, then the…
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- Criswell's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1862
- Dinan v. Supreme Council of Catholic Mutual Benefit Ass'nSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1906
- Robins v. QuinlivenSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1875
- Ogden's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1872
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