Harper v. Blean
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the common pleas of Cumberland county. The following facts were agreed by'the parties to-be considered as a special verdict.
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ERROR to the common pleas of Cumberland county. The following facts were agreed by'the parties to-be considered as a special verdict. Andrew Harper, under whom both parties claim title, was in his lifetime, and at the date of his will hereafter mentioned, seised in fee of and in the tract of land and premises mentioned and described in the writ and statement in this suit, together with two other tracts of unimproved woodland in the same township and county, one of which contains forty acres and one hundred and thirty-six perches, and the other contains thirteen acres and eighty perches. The…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Sergeant, J.
The testator, by a will in his own handwriting, devised to his wife the farm, fulling-mill and carding machines on which he was then living : he next bequeathed to her all his personal property; and then two lots of ground, describing them. Immediately afterwards, by a sweeping clause, he gives to her “ all his *473cash, notes and book accounts, with whatsoever is not named that he has any right or claim to either in law or equity ;” and ends by appointing an executor. He had no other real estate than that described in the will. He had no…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- M'Williams v. MartinSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1825
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