Paxson v. Lefferts
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. In the Court-ef Gommon Pleas of Montgomery county, from which the cause was removed to this court by writ of error, this was an ejectment for-a messuage, mill and tract of land; in Abington township, in which the defendants in error, Elizabeth Lefferts and Susanna Addis were plaintiffs, and the plaintiff in error, Jacob Paxson, was defendant.
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IN ERROR. In the Court-ef Gommon Pleas of Montgomery county, from which the cause was removed to this court by writ of error, this was an ejectment for-a messuage, mill and tract of land; in Abington township, in which the defendants in error, Elizabeth Lefferts and Susanna Addis were plaintiffs, and the plaintiff in error, Jacob Paxson, was defendant. At the trial in the court below, on the 27th November, 1827, the following facts were, by the consent of counsel, found by the jury in the form of a special verdict. On the fifth January, 1761, John Knight, being seized in fee of the premises…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
This case has grown out of the will of John Knight, dated the fifth day of January, 1761. That part of the will out of which the question to be decided arises, is in the following words. “ I give to my son Charles Knight my messuage and plantation situate in Abington, in the county of Philadelphia, the "which I had from my father, with the buildings and appertinances thereunto belonging, with the rents issues to.him during his natural life; and if he shall leave lawful issue, then to them, their heirs and assigns forever. But for want of…
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