Hitchcock v. Hitchcock
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error, to tbe Common Pleas of Luzerne eounty. This was an ejectment by Celinda Ann Hitchcock, by her guardian L. D. Shoemaker, against Ebenezer Hitchcock, for three acres of land, or thereabouts, in Scranton, Luzerne county.
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Error, to tbe Common Pleas of Luzerne eounty. This was an ejectment by Celinda Ann Hitchcock, by her guardian L. D. Shoemaker, against Ebenezer Hitchcock, for three acres of land, or thereabouts, in Scranton, Luzerne county. The parties agreed upon a case stated, in the nature of a special verdict, in which the following facts were submitted for the opinion of the court:— Elisha Hitchcock, Sr., died seised of the premises in question, having first made the following will, on the 30th July 1857, which was duly proved after his decease. “ I, Elisha Hitchcock, of Scranton, in the county of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Woodward, J.
At the time the will was written, the testator did not mean to dispose of the bulk of his estate by any testamentary act, but meant, rather, that the distribution of the bulk should be controlled by notes and deeds to be thereafter made in favour of his children. This purpose is avowed in the first clause of the will, where, after speaking of the notes and deeds, he proceeds to dispose, specifically, of all his “ remaining real and personal estate.” Whatever, therefore, was not contained in the specific devises to his wife and…
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