Zeller's Lessee v. Eckert
Supreme Court of the United States
This was a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to bring up for review certain instructions to the jury in an action of ejectment brought by the plaintiff in error against the defendants in error, and in which the latter obtained the verdict.
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This was a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to bring up for review certain instructions to the jury in an action of ejectment brought by the plaintiff in error against the defendants in error, and in which the latter obtained the verdict. Frederick White was the owner of the -premises in question, being part of a small' tract off land situate in the county of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, of which he died seized in March, 1798, leaving a last will and testament by which he devised the said land in fee to Frederick White, Jr., his…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justi é NELSON
delivered the opinion of the court. '
According to the true -construction of the will of Frederick White, we are inclined to think that the widow was'.entitled to the possession and enjoyment of the premises in question down to the year 1809, when the son would have arrived at the age of fifteen had he survived, notwithstanding his death in 1800, some nine year's short of that time, as the .testator probably intended the rents and profits during this period as a part of her provision in the settlement of his estate. The right' of entry, therefore, did not accrue to the…
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