McKnight v. Bell
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL. BY DEPENDANT PROM THE COURT OP COMMON PLEAS OP BLAIR COUNTY. , No. 216 January Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 71 June Term 1887, C. P. On May 18, 3887, Robert McKnight brought ejectment against Edward Bell for tbe undivided one half of 39 acres of land in Antis township. Tbe defendant pleaded not guilty.
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APPEAL. BY DEPENDANT PROM THE COURT OP COMMON PLEAS OP BLAIR COUNTY. , No. 216 January Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 71 June Term 1887, C. P. On May 18, 3887, Robert McKnight brought ejectment against Edward Bell for tbe undivided one half of 39 acres of land in Antis township. Tbe defendant pleaded not guilty. At the trial on February 26, 1889, the following facts were shown: Robert McKnight, Sr., father of the plaintiff, died in 1860, seised of a number of pieces of real estate, among which was a farm in Antis township containing 174 acres. By his will, he devised his real estate to…
1Opinion of the Court
*370Opinion,
Mjr. Justice Clark:
It is admitted, that Robert McKnight, Sr., in the year 1860, died seised inter alia of 174 acres of land in Antis township, Blair county, which embraced the lands in dispute, and that by his last will and testament, admitted to probate 8th January, 1861, he devised the same in fee to his six sons, John, William, Blair, Robert, Wilson, and Reuben, equally and in common. On the 16th March, 1875, when the youngest son came of age, an amicable partition of the testator’s lands was made among them in writing, by the terms of which Blair, William, and Robert took as their…
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