Cropley v. Cooper
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. William Cooper, of Maryland, died in 1845, leaving a widow (Sarah), three sons, William, Joseph, and John, and one daughter, Elizabeth. Two of the sons, William and Joseph, were married and had children; John was unmarried. Elizabeth, then thirty years old, was married to Richard Cropley and had one son, William Cooper Cropley.
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Appeal from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. William Cooper, of Maryland, died in 1845, leaving a widow (Sarah), three sons, William, Joseph, and John, and one daughter, Elizabeth. Two of the sons, William and Joseph, were married and had children; John was unmarried. Elizabeth, then thirty years old, was married to Richard Cropley and had one son, William Cooper Cropley. The testator’s property consisted of a farm in Maryland, on which he resided; a house on Pennsylvania Avenue, in the city’ of Washington ; a vacant lot there, on Capitol Hill; stock in the Potomac Insurance…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice S Wayne
This ease turns upon the following clause of the will of William Cooper, deceased:
“To my daughter, Elizabeth Cropley, at her mother’s death, I give and bequeath the rent of my house on Pennsylvania Avenue, in the city of Washington, situated on square-, for and during her life; and at her decease it is my will that the said-be sold, and the avails therefrom become the property of her children or child, when he, she, or they have arrived at the age of twenty-one years, the interest in the meantime to be applied to their maintenance.”
The testator died in 1845. lie left at his decease a widow,…
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