Robb v. Bigham
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
FROM THE DECREE OE THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY. No. 25 October Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 663 April Term 1849, Dist. Ct.
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FROM THE DECREE OE THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY. No. 25 October Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 663 April Term 1849, Dist. Ct. On April 28,1849, .Robert Robb presented bis petition, entitled a bill in olían eery, which was as follows : Your petitioner respectfully represents that in contemplation of a marriage about to be solemnized by and between Maria L. Lewis and T. J. Bigliam, Esq., all the estate, real, personal and mixed, then belonging to tlie said Maria, were conveyed to your petitioner, Ms heirs and assigns, by deed bearing date the 20th day of December, A. v. 1846,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Green:
This is a curious and an extraordinary case. The appellant asks us to reverse a decree made by the old District Court of Allegheny county in the year 1849, upon an appeal which was not taken until the year 1887. She claims that she was under the disability of coverture from the time of the decree until November 9, 1884, when her husband died, and that she was entitled to five years from the death of her husband within which to take her appeal, under the act of 1791, because the act of 1874, which limits the time to two years, does not apply to cases in which the…
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