Arnold v. Jack's Executors
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to tbe Common Pleas of Westmoreland county. Action of ejectment by William Jack’s Executors v. Andrew Arnold, to recover a portion of tbe real estate of Henry Jack, deceased, which tbe plaintiffs claimed to belong to William Jack, their testator, under the will of his brother, Henry Jack, deceased-. Henry Jack, by his will, dated 7th May, 1829, devised all of his real and personal estate, by the same devise, to his three brothers, Matthew, William, and Wilson Jack, as…
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ERROR to tbe Common Pleas of Westmoreland county. Action of ejectment by William Jack’s Executors v. Andrew Arnold, to recover a portion of tbe real estate of Henry Jack, deceased, which tbe plaintiffs claimed to belong to William Jack, their testator, under the will of his brother, Henry Jack, deceased-. Henry Jack, by his will, dated 7th May, 1829, devised all of his real and personal estate, by the same devise, to his three brothers, Matthew, William, and Wilson Jack, as joint-ten ants, &c. The terms of the will are hereafter stated. He died in January, 1837. Matthew Jack, by his deed,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by '
Knox, J.
The estate in controversy was devised by Henry Jack to his three brothers, Matthew, William, and Wilson Jack, in the following words: “As joint tenants and to the survivors and survivor of them, and the heirs of said survivor, to be assignable by my said brothers .or their survivors at any time or in any manner they may think proper, provided the said brothers or their survivors shall all, or both, if one be dead, assent to such assignment, but the survivor of them may assign, convey, or devise at his pleasure.”
*61Wilson Jack, under whom tbe…
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