Guthrie's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was an appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Chester county,confirming the report of the auditor, on the account of Joseph Guthrie, guardian of the minor children of Elizabeth Bones, deceased.
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This was an appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Chester county,confirming the report of the auditor, on the account of Joseph Guthrie, guardian of the minor children of Elizabeth Bones, deceased. The case was this: Elizabeth Bones died in January 1848, leaving her husband, James Bones, and six minor children, in possession of a messuage and tract of land which her father, Robert Harris, deceased, by his will, dated March 6th 1847, had devised as follows :— “ I give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth, wife of James Bones, the use and life estate, in her own proper person (but without power to…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Strong, J.
The words of the will of Robert Harris, out of which arises the controversy in this case, are as follows: “I give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth, wife of James Bones, the use and life estate in her own proper person (but without power to convey the same to any other person for any period or term), all my messuage, tenement, and lot or tract of land whereon she now resides with her husband, in the township of Brandywine, and county of Chester, which I purchased at sheriff’s sale as the property of William Christman, and containing…
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