Burr v. Sim
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was a writ of error to the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia, to remove the record of an action of ejectment brought by George Sim, Margaret Sim, Jean Anderson, and Peter Nicholson, against Postrema Burr, to recover possession of a house and lot of ground situate on the north side of Mulberry (or Arch) street, between Second and Third streets, in the City of Philadelphia. ¡ The plaintiffs below claimed as heirs of a certain Archibald Cummings Craig,…
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This was a writ of error to the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia, to remove the record of an action of ejectment brought by George Sim, Margaret Sim, Jean Anderson, and Peter Nicholson, against Postrema Burr, to recover possession of a house and lot of ground situate on the north side of Mulberry (or Arch) street, between Second and Third streets, in the City of Philadelphia. ¡ The plaintiffs below claimed as heirs of a certain Archibald Cummings Craig, who died seized or possessed of the premises, on the 5th of September 1797, and whose title to the same arose as…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Rogers, J.,
who after stating the facts and the principal clauses in the wills of George Craig and Archibald Cummings Craig, proceeded thus—
It is contended, 1st, that by the will of. George Craig, the house and lot devised to Doctor Currie, which is the subject of the ejectment, was converted into personal property.
2. That whether personal or real, Doctor Currie took an absolute interest in the estate.
3. That if the real estate was, by the will of George Craig, converted into personalty, yet, Archibald Cummings Craig elected to take it as real estate…
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