Mercer v. Buchanan
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Pennsylvania
In Equity.
1Opinion of the Court
BUFFINGTON, District Judge.
This is a bill in equity filed by Mrs. Helen B. Mercer, the second life tenant in a certain deed of trust dated January 16, 1900, against the trustees named therein. Her mother, Mrs. Kate B. Bingham, now deceased, was the maker and first life tenant under said deed. Mrs. Bingham, when it was executed, resided in New York City. She was apprehensive that death might result from Bright’s disease, from which she was supposed to be suffering. Her husband had lost his mind and was in a sanitarium. She had but one daughter, the complainant, who was married, and whose…
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