Packer v. Nixon

BALDWIN. Circuit Justice.

“The same principle i6 the rule in Pennsylvania, in all cases to which the common law had been applied by adoption; and it remains now the law of descent of both real and personal estate, if the provisions of an act of assembly do not in their words embrace the very case in controversy.

“This must be taken to be a point conclusively settled as the law of the state, by the authoritative decisions of the high court of errors and appeals in Johnson y. Haines, 4 Dall. [4 U. S.] 64, and of the supreme court in Cresoe v. Laidley, 2 Bin. 279, 284, and no longer open to…