Spruneberger v. Dentler
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the common pleas of Dauphin county. .This was an action of debt for a legacy under the will of Frederick Dentler deceased, by Christiana Spruneberger, lately Christiana Dentler, against the executors of Frederick Dentler deceased, with notice to John Warner and others, terre tenants. The legacy, when claimed, amounted to about 170 dollars.
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ERROR to the common pleas of Dauphin county. .This was an action of debt for a legacy under the will of Frederick Dentler deceased, by Christiana Spruneberger, lately Christiana Dentler, against the executors of Frederick Dentler deceased, with notice to John Warner and others, terre tenants. The legacy, when claimed, amounted to about 170 dollars. The defence was, that an agreement had been made between Warner the terre tenant, whose land was charged with the payment of this legacy, and the husband of the plaintiff in his lifetime, by which he was to receive 40 dollars and a watch worth…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
—This was an action of debt, brought in the court below, to recover a legacy bequeathed to the plaintiff by her father, Frederick Dentler, in his last will and testament. The legacy being in amount 25 pounds at the death of the testator in 1796, was charged upon the land of which John Warner, one of the defendants in this case, afterwards became the terre tenant. On the trial of the cause, it appeared from the evidence, that in September 1827, in the lifetime of Michael Spruneberger the husband of the plaintiff, who died before the bringing…
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