Owens v. Haines
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 121, Jan. T., 1901, by-defendant, from judgment of C. P. Chester Co., Jan. T., 1900, No. 57, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Florence C. Owens v. Benjamin W. Haines, Executor of Marshall Shaw, Deceased. Ejectment for a lot of ground situate on the southeast corner of Market and Walnut streets in the borough of West Chester.
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Appeal, No. 121, Jan. T., 1901, by-defendant, from judgment of C. P. Chester Co., Jan. T., 1900, No. 57, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Florence C. Owens v. Benjamin W. Haines, Executor of Marshall Shaw, Deceased. Ejectment for a lot of ground situate on the southeast corner of Market and Walnut streets in the borough of West Chester. Before Butler, J. At the trial it appeared that Abi C. Shaw, the mother of the plaintiff, owned the land in controversy, having become seized thereof by devise from Abi C. Carr on February 16,1864. On March 11, 1867, Abi C. Shaw, who was the wife of…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Bbown,
Abi C. Shaw, the mother of appellee, was the owner of the real estate in controversy, having acquired it by devise from *140Abi C. Carr. Her husband was Marshall Shaw, the father of appellee. On March 11, 1867, Mrs. Shaw executed her will, giving and devising her entire estate to her husband, and, on July 23, 1867, more than four months afterwards, their only child, Florence, was born. She now claims that the real estate of the mother, upon the latter’s death, descended to her under the intestate laws, because she was born after the execution of the said will, and…
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