Ralston v. Waln
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certificate from the Court at Nisi Prius. In Equity. This was a bill in equity, brought in the court below by Eliza Ralston against Lewis Wain and Dr. Robert Ralston Dorsey, in which complainant alleged that Charles Ckauncey and Gerard Ralston, both late of the city of Philadelphia, executors of the last will and testament of Robert Ralston, then late of the said city, deceased, by an indenture dated the 4th day of April, A. D. 1849, duly recorded, to which the complainant…
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Certificate from the Court at Nisi Prius. In Equity. This was a bill in equity, brought in the court below by Eliza Ralston against Lewis Wain and Dr. Robert Ralston Dorsey, in which complainant alleged that Charles Ckauncey and Gerard Ralston, both late of the city of Philadelphia, executors of the last will and testament of Robert Ralston, then late of the said city, deceased, by an indenture dated the 4th day of April, A. D. 1849, duly recorded, to which the complainant was made party of the second part, reciting that the said Robert Ralston held “certain stocks and other items of personal…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Read, J.
Two deeds of trust are included in this bill, including different properties, and clothed in different language, and demanding separate if not different constructions. The first deed, of the 4th April 1849, conveyed to the defendant certain stocks and securities therein mentioned, which had been originally held by Robert Ralston, for the sole and separate use of the complainant, then the wife of Ashbel-Gr. Ralston, in trust to receive the income and to pay over the same to the complainant, *287to her sole and separate use, free, clear, and…
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