Sager v. Mead
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 133, July T., 1893, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. Warren Co., Sept. T., 1891, No. 57, on verdict for defendant. Ejectment. Before Olmstead, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Plaintiffs claimed under the will of George A. Cobham, defendants under an orphans’ court sale.
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Appeal, No. 133, July T., 1893, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. Warren Co., Sept. T., 1891, No. 57, on verdict for defendant. Ejectment. Before Olmstead, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Plaintiffs claimed under the will of George A. Cobham, defendants under an orphans’ court sale. Plaintiffs offered a paragraph of defendant’s abstract of title referring to the will of George A. Cobham as filed, as an item of proof that the will was filed, to be followed by entry of filing, etc. Excluded as irrelevant; exception. [11] The court, under objection and exception…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb,. Chief Justice Sterrett,
This action of ejectment for the land described in the writ *130had its inception in circumstances which appear to be quite out of the ordinary course.
On October 6, 1870, George A. Cobham. died testate, seized, inter alia, of the land in controversy, leaving to survive him three daughters: Georgena C. Cobham, Elizabetli (intermarried with John Sager) and Alice (afterwards intermarried with George Mead, the defendant, and since dead), and a stepson. Henry Cobham, who was also a nephew of the deceased. As appears by his will, the testator devised said lands to…
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