Maffit v. Clark
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the Common Pleas of Chester county. Sally Maffit against William Clark. This was a case stated as follows: The fee-simple interest in the tract of land in dispute was vested in the Rev. Cyrus H. Jacobs. He died on the 14th September 1836, intestate, leaving a widow, Jane W. Jacobs, and two children, Anna Maria Jacobs and Lucy Strawbridge Jacobs, both infants.
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ERROR to the Common Pleas of Chester county. Sally Maffit against William Clark. This was a case stated as follows: The fee-simple interest in the tract of land in dispute was vested in the Rev. Cyrus H. Jacobs. He died on the 14th September 1836, intestate, leaving a widow, Jane W. Jacobs, and two children, Anna Maria Jacobs and Lucy Strawbridge Jacobs, both infants. Of these the said Lucy Strawbridge Jacobs died in the month of November of the same year, intestate, unmarried and without issue, leaving her mother and sister to survive her. In the month of February in the year following, the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Htjston, J.
The case stated presents these facts. The lands in question descended from Cyrus Jacobs to his two daughters, Lucy and Anna, subject to their mother’s dower. Lucy died in November 1836, an infant without issue or husband. In February 1837 Anna also died unmarried and without issue and intestate; and in February 1838 their mother died. Before her death she devised her real estate to her aunt, Sally Maffit, the plaintiff, for life, remainder to her three brothers in fee. When Mr Jacobs died, his lands descended to his daughters subject to a’…
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