Vowinckel v. Patterson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Blair county; Of July Term 1886, No. 79. This was an amicable action of debt, wherein Calvin M. Patterson was plaintiff and Charles Vowinckel was defendant, in which the following case stated was filed by the parties. And now, February 20fh, 1886, it is hereby agreed by and between the parties, plaintiff and defendant above named, that the following case be stated for the opinion of the court in the nature of a special verdict.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Blair county; Of July Term 1886, No. 79. This was an amicable action of debt, wherein Calvin M. Patterson was plaintiff and Charles Vowinckel was defendant, in which the following case stated was filed by the parties. And now, February 20fh, 1886, it is hereby agreed by and between the parties, plaintiff and defendant above named, that the following case be stated for the opinion of the court in the nature of a special verdict. That Isaac Thompson and Nancy Thompson, bis wife, resided in Hollidaysburg, Blair county, Pennsylvania, previous to and in the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Trunkey
Isaac Thompson devised the rents and profits of the land described in the case stated, to his wife during her life, and at her death to her heirs. The learned judge of the Common Pleas'rightly decided that under the operation of the rule in Shelley’s case, Nancy Thompson took an estate in fee simple.
The rule, operates to give the ancestor an estate for life in the first instance, and by force of the devise to his heirs the inheritance also, by conferring the inheritance on him as the stock from which alone they can inherit: Hileman v. Bouslaugh, 13 Pa. St., 344.
Other clauses of the will fail…
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