Steele v. Walter
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 73, Oct. T., 1902, by-defendant, from decree of C. P. Westmoreland Co., No. 390, Equity Docket, dismissing bill in equity in case of Mary C. Steele v. Lucinda H. Walter, B. F. Walter and AnnaB. Fried-line. Bill in equity to strike off satisfaction of a mortgage, and to have foreclosure proceedings marked to use of complainant.
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Appeal, No. 73, Oct. T., 1902, by-defendant, from decree of C. P. Westmoreland Co., No. 390, Equity Docket, dismissing bill in equity in case of Mary C. Steele v. Lucinda H. Walter, B. F. Walter and AnnaB. Fried-line. Bill in equity to strike off satisfaction of a mortgage, and to have foreclosure proceedings marked to use of complainant. McConnell, J., filed the following findings of fact and conclusions of law: 1. John Walter, in his lifetime, was the owner of a farm of 100 acres in Washington township, Westmoreland county. 2. After his death his last will and testament was admitted to…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb,. Justice Brown,
John Walter devised a farm to his son, B. F. Walter, one of the appellees, directing that he pay certain legacies, and that a daughter, Lucinda H., another of the defendants below, should “ have her living in the old homestead so long as she remains unmarried and does not charge wages for services rendered.” The old homestead was the farm devised to the son. This provision for the support of the daughter we held to be a charge on the land : Walters’s Estate, 197 Pa. 555. The son accepted the devise and subsequently, on December 29, 1894, in conjunction with his…
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