Moyer v. Thomas
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Bchuylldll county. This was an action of ejectment, brought by Septimus Thomas against William Minnich, for the undivided half of a messuage and tract of land in North Manheim township, Schuylkill county, containing two hundred and twenty-six acres and forty-two perches, in which the following case was stated for the opinion of the court:— The fee simple of the tract of land in dispute was vested in Benjamin Pott, who, by his deed and his wife’s,…
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Error to the Common Pleas of Bchuylldll county. This was an action of ejectment, brought by Septimus Thomas against William Minnich, for the undivided half of a messuage and tract of land in North Manheim township, Schuylkill county, containing two hundred and twenty-six acres and forty-two perches, in which the following case was stated for the opinion of the court:— The fee simple of the tract of land in dispute was vested in Benjamin Pott, who, by his deed and his wife’s, bearing date the 9th day of October, A. d. 1829, which is made part of the case stated, conveyed a tract of land…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered,
by Thompson, J.
— The defendant in error was plaintiff below, and claimed to recover a life estate in the premises under the intestate laws. Benjamin Pott and wife, in 1829, granted the estate out of which this controversy has arisen, to Jacob Minnich, in trust for his wife for life, with remainder to their children in fee. -Minnich and wife afterwards, in 1832, conveyed the premises to Joshua Comley, Esq., in trust to convey the same to Mrs. Minnich for life, the remainder as in the first deed. Minnich and wife had four children; two died unmarried and…
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- Maffit v. ClarkSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1843
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- Reed v. GeddesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1926