West v. West
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware county, Samuel West and others brought this action on the case against Samuel S. West, for committing waste and destruction in certain real estate, alledged in the declaration to be held in common by the plaintiffs and the defendant, and the jury found a special verdict. The plaintiffs below claimed as heirs at law of Mary Wiley, the defendant below claimed under her will and testamentary conveyance.
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In the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware county, Samuel West and others brought this action on the case against Samuel S. West, for committing waste and destruction in certain real estate, alledged in the declaration to be held in common by the plaintiffs and the defendant, and the jury found a special verdict. The plaintiffs below claimed as heirs at law of Mary Wiley, the defendant below claimed under her will and testamentary conveyance. Mary Shaw was seised in fee of the premises, and in the year 1786, intermarried with Joseph Wiley. In December of the same year, Joseph Wiley and his wife…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Duncan, J.
The defendants here were plaintiffs below, and claimed as heirs at law of Wiley, the defendant below. The plaintiff here claimed under her. will or testamentary conveyance.
Mary Shaw was seized in fee of the premises, and in 1786, intermarried with Joseph Wiley, and in December, of the same year, after her marriage, Joseph Wiley, and his wife, by their indenture, did transfer, assign, and set over, and give up, unto Alger-non Roberts and others, all their goods, chatties, dues and demands, with all the real estate of the said Mary as devised…
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