Kaufman v. Burgert
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 18, Jan. T., 1900, by defendant,-from judgment of C. P. Berks Co., Jan. T., 1900, No. 40, on case stated in suit of Cyrus W. Kaufman v. Benneville Burgent. Case stated to determine the marketable title to real estate. The facts set forth in the case stated sufficiently appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 18, Jan. T., 1900, by defendant,-from judgment of C. P. Berks Co., Jan. T., 1900, No. 40, on case stated in suit of Cyrus W. Kaufman v. Benneville Burgent. Case stated to determine the marketable title to real estate. The facts set forth in the case stated sufficiently appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court entered judgment in favor of plaintiff for $7,500 being the amount of purchase money which defendant had agreed to pay to plaintiff for land devised to plaintiff by his father. .Error assigned was ih entering judgment for plaintiff.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Green,
There cannot be the least doubt that the estate given by the *276will of Daniel B. Kaufman to Ms son Cyrus William Kaufman, in the land in question, is an absolute estate in -fee simple. The devise is in the following words : “ I give and devise unto my son Cyrus William, his heirs and assigns forever, from and after the expiration of eighteen years from the date hereof, the farm on which I now live situate in Maidencreek Township, aforesaid, bounded -as follows,” etc. The payment of some legacies was imposed, and a subjection to some reservations, but none of…
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