Wallace v. Denig
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 154, Oct. T., 1892, by defendants, C. Denig et al., from judgment of C. P. No. 8, Allegheny Co., Aug. T., 1892, No. 251, on verdict for plaintiff, James Wallace. Ejectment for undivided one half of farm. At the trial it appeared that plaintiff claimed a life interest in one half of the land in controversy as father of his child Margaret, who died in 1851. The facts of the case appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 154, Oct. T., 1892, by defendants, C. Denig et al., from judgment of C. P. No. 8, Allegheny Co., Aug. T., 1892, No. 251, on verdict for plaintiff, James Wallace. Ejectment for undivided one half of farm. At the trial it appeared that plaintiff claimed a life interest in one half of the land in controversy as father of his child Margaret, who died in 1851. The facts of the case appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Plaintiff’s points which were affirmed were as follows: “ 1. By the will of Barnett Gilleland, deceased, the legal title to the land in dispute in this case was…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Paxson,
This was an action of ejectment in the court below in which James Wallace, the plaintiff and appellee, claims title to an undivided one half of a farm in Braddock township, during his life, as father of his daughter, Maggie, who died in 1851.
Barnett Gilleland executed his will March 13,1844, and died on and about November 1, 1845.
By the sixth paragraph of his will the testator provides: “ To my son, William, I hereby give and bequeath in special trust and confidence as trustee of my daughter, Lydia Wallace, the second choice (after my son, James) of the…
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