Powroznick v. Mozingo

By JUDGE JOSEPH E. SPRUILL, JR.

This is a declaratory judgment action between two sisters in which the court is asked to resolve a dispute over the interpretation of their mother’s will.

At her death in 1986, Mrs. Helen M Anthony owned two parcels of land in Westmoreland County. These parcels have been in the Anthony family for approximately a century. Over the years, deeds relating to these parcels have referred to them as being "on opposite sides of the road leading from Hague to Carey’s Shop." The parcel on the north side of the road, according to the early deeds, contained ten acres, more…