Miller v. Grimes
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 284, Jan. T., 1917, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. Fayette Co., June T., 1915, No. 792, in ease of Colley J. Miller v. William Grimes and Lee Grimes. Framed issue to determine title to land in Fayette County. Before Reppert, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The trial judge directed a verdict for plaintiff upon which judgment was entered. Defendants appealed.
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Appeal, No. 284, Jan. T., 1917, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. Fayette Co., June T., 1915, No. 792, in ease of Colley J. Miller v. William Grimes and Lee Grimes. Framed issue to determine title to land in Fayette County. Before Reppert, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The trial judge directed a verdict for plaintiff upon which judgment was entered. Defendants appealed. Error assigned was in directing a verdict for plaintiff and in refusing to direct a verdict for defendants.
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
On May 8,1899, Anna Lenora Grimes Miller, the wife of Colley J. Miller, the appellee, acquired title by deed to the lot of ground involved in this controversy. She died intestate May 16, 1902, leaving to survive her her husband and a child, Inez Irene Miller, to whom the said lot descended subject to the husband’s curtesy. The child died a month later, in her minority, unmarried and without issue. Two brothers of her mother claimed the fee in the lot on the ground that it had not passed from her to her father because he was not of the blood of her mother, the first purchaser, and…
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