Hand v. Weidner
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 110, July T., 1891, by plaintiffs, Isaac P. Hand and Edward S. Dolph, executors of Edward Dolph, deceased, from decree of C. P. Lackawanna Co., June T., 1890, No. 4, dismissing bill in equity against A. J. Weidner and Laura Weidner, his wife, et al. Bill in equity to reform defective certificate of acknowledgment.
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Appeal, No. 110, July T., 1891, by plaintiffs, Isaac P. Hand and Edward S. Dolph, executors of Edward Dolph, deceased, from decree of C. P. Lackawanna Co., June T., 1890, No. 4, dismissing bill in equity against A. J. Weidner and Laura Weidner, his wife, et al. Bill in equity to reform defective certificate of acknowledgment. The second paragraph of the bill was as follows: “ That the said Laura Weidner, joining A. J. Weidner, her husband, being of full age, executed and delivered to said Dolph a release and quit claim to the said share of her father’s estate, including said land, to said…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice McCollum,
This is a bill to reform a defective certificate of acknowledgment. It is authorized by the act of May 25, 1878, P. L. 149, and it charges inter alia that on the 17th of April, 1868, Laura Weidner and her husband A. J. Weidner, united in a deed of release and quit claim to Edward Dolph his heirs and *367assigns, of the share or interest of the said Laura in the estate, real and personal, of her deceased father, which deed it alleges was acknowledged by them in due form of law before N. W. Warner, a justice of the peace duly authorized to take acknowledgments. It…
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