Dubs v. Dubs
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Bucks county. This was an amicable ejectment by George R., Thomas C., Howard, and Joseph Dubs, by their guardian The Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities, against Dr. Samuel R. Dubs, wherein the parties agreed upon a case stated, to be considered as a special verdict and subject to a writ of error.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Bucks county. This was an amicable ejectment by George R., Thomas C., Howard, and Joseph Dubs, by their guardian The Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities, against Dr. Samuel R. Dubs, wherein the parties agreed upon a case stated, to be considered as a special verdict and subject to a writ of error. The material facts are recited in the opinion of the court below, which was delivered by Smyser, P. J. — “ The plaintiffs are the children and heirs at law of Adelaide Dubs (late Adelaide Ross), a daughter of the Hon. John Ross, deceased.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Lowrie, C. J.
Our law authorizes a married woman to dispose of her separate property by will; and our intestate law of 1833 says that her estate, not so disposed of, or otherwise limited by marriage settlement, shall descend to her children, saving to her husband “ his right as tenant by the curtesy; which shall take place, although there be no issue of the marriage, in all cases where the issue, if any, would have inherited.”
Again, it, says, of her real estate, not so disposed of, that it shall descend subject to the estate and interest above given to…
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