Billings's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
■ Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Tioga county : In Equity: Of January Term, 1884, No. 420. This was a bill in equity filed by Charles F. Billings and Abbey B. McNeil, against Sarah M. Billings, Jefferson Harrison and William Putnam, praying for an injunction to restrain the defendants from committing waste by cutting timber on certain lands, and for an account of timber cut.
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■ Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Tioga county : In Equity: Of January Term, 1884, No. 420. This was a bill in equity filed by Charles F. Billings and Abbey B. McNeil, against Sarah M. Billings, Jefferson Harrison and William Putnam, praying for an injunction to restrain the defendants from committing waste by cutting timber on certain lands, and for an account of timber cut. An answer was filed, and the cause was referred to an examiner, and subsequently to a Master, who reported a decree dismissing the bill. Exceptions filed by the complainants were dismissed by the court, and a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark
Silas X. Billings, who died intestate, on the 13th day of October, 1879, was, at the time of his death, the owner in fee of certain tracts of land, situate in the-counties of Tioga and *559Potter, containing in the aggregate 38,157 acres. He left to survive him a widow, Sarah M. Billings, a brother, Charles F. Billings, and a sister, Abbie, wife of P. S. S. McNeil, the brother and sister named, being of the whole blood, and other brothers and sisters of the half blood.
In his lifetime, on the 25th September, 1879, he entered into a written contract with Henry Colton, to cut the pine timber on…
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