Magoffin v. Patton
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was an amicable action instituted in this court, in which John Magoffin, administrator of Henry Patton, was plaintiff, and Tace W. Patton and others, executors of Robert Patton, deceased, defendants.
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This was an amicable action instituted in this court, in which John Magoffin, administrator of Henry Patton, was plaintiff, and Tace W. Patton and others, executors of Robert Patton, deceased, defendants. It was entered for the purpose of determining the right of the plaintiff, to recover a legacy of six thousand dollars, which was bequeathed by the defendant’s testator in his last will and testament, to the intestate of the plaintiff who claimed it with interest from the time of the testator’s death. A case was stated for the opinion of the court, and the questions arising upon it, were…
1Opinion of the Court
Every thing that is material in the case will be found in the opinion of the court, which was delivered by
Kennedy J.
From the case as stated and agreed on by the parties for the opinion of the court, it appears, that Robert Patton, the testator, by his will, dated the 12th day of December, 1818, and proved the sixth of January, then next following, after giving to his wife certain bequests of personal property, and also one-third part of all the rents, income and profits, of his real estate, during her natural life, bequeathed to his children, of whom Henry, the intestate of the plaintiff was…
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