McKinney v. Hamilton
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error, to the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny county. This was a scire facias on a mortgage by Lydia B. McKinney, surviving Alexander McKinney, deceased, for use of herself and Mary Oliver, against James Hamilton and Sarah his wife. Verdict for plaintiff, $119.50, and writ of error by plaintiff. Lydia McKinney, the plaintiff, was the daughter of Joseph Oliver, deceased, and Mary Oliver.
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Error, to the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny county. This was a scire facias on a mortgage by Lydia B. McKinney, surviving Alexander McKinney, deceased, for use of herself and Mary Oliver, against James Hamilton and Sarah his wife. Verdict for plaintiff, $119.50, and writ of error by plaintiff. Lydia McKinney, the plaintiff, was the daughter of Joseph Oliver, deceased, and Mary Oliver. A lot of land in Pittsburgh, late the estate of her father, was decreed to her under proceedings in partition, subject to her mother’s dower, being the interest of $500 annually. Lydia sold this lot to…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Read, J.
— By proceedings in the Orphans’ Court the estate of Joseph Oliver was divided into six purparts, and one purpart, valued by the inquisition at $1500, was decreed to his daughter, Lydia Oliver, a minor, subject to the dower of her mother, Mary Oliver, viz.: the interest of $500, annually, during her natural life. Lydia, having intermarried with Alexander McKinney, sold and conveyed this purpart, consisting of a lot of ground, to Sarah Hamilton, wife of James K. Hamilton, Mary Oliver releasing her dower-interest to Mrs. Hamilton, as appears by…
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