Opp v. Chess
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 17, Oct. T., 1902, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co., Jan. T., 1900, No. 174, on verdict for defendants in case of Clara Opp et al. v. Goodman Y. C. Chess et al. Ejectment for land in the borough of Coraopolis and Moon township. Before Frazer, P. J. The court gave binding instructions for defendant. Verdict and judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appealed. jError assigned among others was in giving binding instructions for defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Feel,
The will of a married woman who died while domiciled in Ohio was admitted to probate in that state in November, 1889. In March, 1892, a properly certified copy of the will and of the proceedings admitting it to probate were filed in the register’s office of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, and the will and certificates were copied at length in a will book in that office. The husband of the testatrix was the sole devisee under her will. In March, 1892, he conveyed the real estate devised, which was situated in this state, to the grantor of the defendants in the…
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