Falls v. Reis
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lawrence county : No. 173, to October and November Term 1873. This was an action of ejectment, brought October 26th 1871, by Thomas H. Falls, for a strip of land 292 feet long, in the city of New Castle. Both parties claimed under Thomas Falls, deceased. The decedent for many years before his death was the owner of a piece of land adjoining New Castle on the north and afterwards included in it.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lawrence county : No. 173, to October and November Term 1873. This was an action of ejectment, brought October 26th 1871, by Thomas H. Falls, for a strip of land 292 feet long, in the city of New Castle. Both parties claimed under Thomas Falls, deceased. The decedent for many years before his death was the owner of a piece of land adjoining New Castle on the north and afterwards included in it. In his lifetime he had opened Falls street, running east and west through his land, parallel with the streets of the town, and about 100 feet north from the north…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, January 10th 1874, by
Agnew, J. —
The question in this case is upon the interpretation of the will of Thomas Falls, and depends on his intention to make his devises conform to the extension of certain streets of the city of New Castle into his property adjoining the city. The plaintiff, one of the devisees, brought ejectment for th$ western half of East street, as extended in a right line through the testator’s property, claiming under the will to the middle line of East street as the boundary line of the Homestead lot devised to him. That Thomas Falls…
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