McCormick v. Sypher
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 202, Oct. T., 1912, by defendants, from judgment of O. P. Butler Co., June T., 1911, No. 2, for plaintiffs, on issue framed in case of Charles H. McCormick, et al., v. David Sypher, et al. Issue framed to determine title to land. Before Gal-breath, P. J. The facts appear in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The jury rendered a verdict for the defendants. Upon motion, the court granted judgment non obstante veredicto in favor of the plaintiffs.
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Appeal, No. 202, Oct. T., 1912, by defendants, from judgment of O. P. Butler Co., June T., 1911, No. 2, for plaintiffs, on issue framed in case of Charles H. McCormick, et al., v. David Sypher, et al. Issue framed to determine title to land. Before Gal-breath, P. J. The facts appear in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The jury rendered a verdict for the defendants. Upon motion, the court granted judgment non obstante veredicto in favor of the plaintiffs. Error assigned was in entering judgment non obstante veredicto for the plaintiffs. The deed created an estate tail in the wife: Shoup v.…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Brown,
This appeal comes from a judgment in an issue framed in the court below upon the petition of the appellants for the purpose of determining the title to land. On December 30, 1873, W. A. McCormick, who was the owner of it, executed a deed for it, in which his wife, Susan A. McCormick, joined, to Lewis Z. Mitchell, “In trust for the said Susan A. McCormick and the children of the said Susan A. McCormick on her body begotten and to be begotten by her husband the said Wm. A. McCormick, their heirs and assigns forever.” At the time this deed was executed the McCormicks…
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