Drusadow v. Wilde
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Allegheny county; No. 84, to October and November Term 1869. This was an action of ejectment commenced April 26th 1867, by George W. Wilde against Rudolph Drusadow and Sarah E. Drusadow, his wife, James Trainor and William Spears — Trainor and Spears being tenants of the other defendants. C. Hanson Lowe, assignee of Wilde, was afterwards added as plaintiff. The land in controversy was a lot in the borough of Manchester, now Allegheny City.
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Error to the District Court of Allegheny county; No. 84, to October and November Term 1869. This was an action of ejectment commenced April 26th 1867, by George W. Wilde against Rudolph Drusadow and Sarah E. Drusadow, his wife, James Trainor and William Spears — Trainor and Spears being tenants of the other defendants. C. Hanson Lowe, assignee of Wilde, was afterwards added as plaintiff. The land in controversy was a lot in the borough of Manchester, now Allegheny City. The plaintiff was originally the owner of this and other lots: on the 20th of January 1860 he and his wife, Susan Wilde,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, January 3d 1870, by
Sharswo.od, J. —
The first three assignments of error are all in substance one: that the court below erred in the rejection of the offer of the will of Susan Wilde.
The relevancy and admissibility of this evidence depend upon the question whether Susan Wilde being a married woman had any power to make the disposition of the premises which she undertook to do by the instrument of writing in question. By indenture dated January 20th 1860, George W. Wilde and wife conveyed the property to Robert M. Parke, upon trusts expressed as follows:…
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