Russell's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from Nisi Prius, In Equity: No 4, to July Term 1872. The bill in this case was filed, April 20th 1872, by Emma Louisa Evans against Winfield S. Russell and Edwin T. Eisenbrey, trustees under the marriage settlement of the said Emma, Mary Ann Potter, Stephen B. Eotterall, Sarah E. Eotterall, Sarah K. Eotterall and the said Winfield S. Russell and Catharine S. Russell in her right.
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Appeal from Nisi Prius, In Equity: No 4, to July Term 1872. The bill in this case was filed, April 20th 1872, by Emma Louisa Evans against Winfield S. Russell and Edwin T. Eisenbrey, trustees under the marriage settlement of the said Emma, Mary Ann Potter, Stephen B. Eotterall, Sarah E. Eotterall, Sarah K. Eotterall and the said Winfield S. Russell and Catharine S. Russell in her right. On the 15th of May 1872, the defendants put in their answer, and replication was filed the same day. Samuel Robb, Esq., was appointed examiner and master to report upon the law and the facts and the decree…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, April 2d 1874, by
Agnew, C. J.
The full and able discussion of this case by the master, and the authorities he cites, relieve us from any elaborate opinion upon the question in controversy. From the facts found, it *288is evident Mrs. Evans, then Miss Eotterall, had no motive to fulfil in executing the marriage settlement with William Elbert Evans, except to provide for the control and disposition of her property during their joint lives and Mr. Evans’s survivorship, and to regulate its succession after Ms death. A provision for her own survivorship, and…
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