Addams v. Heffernan
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the common pleas of Berks county. George W. Heffernan, administrator of Catharine Heffernan, deceased, against Elijah Deckert and Peter Addams, administrators of John Addams, deceased.
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ERROR to the common pleas of Berks county. George W. Heffernan, administrator of Catharine Heffernan, deceased, against Elijah Deckert and Peter Addams, administrators of John Addams, deceased. This was an issue under the act of assembly of the 16th of April 1827, to try the right of Catharine Heffernan to the money in court, arising from the sale of the real estate of William Singer, viz: “ It is agreed that the issue in this case be made up by the plea of non assiompsit and issue, and that the same be tried without any declaration or further plea. If the said plaintiff is entitled to any…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
The defendants below, who are the plaintiffs in error, resisted the claim of the plaintiff below, for the arrears of the annuity of twelve pounds, charged upon the one hundred and fifty acres of land, devised to Henry Singer, Jr., by the last will of his fatjher, Henry Singer, the elder, on the ground that the annuity became extinct, either in whole or in part, by means of the one undivided fifth of the land’s having descended to Catharine Heffernan, the annuitant and intestate of the plaintiff below, as one of the five heirs at law of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Heffernan v. AddamsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1838
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