Christy v. Christy
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 436, Jan. T., 1893, by plaintiffs, Gallitzin A. Christy et al., from decree of C. P. Blair Co., No. 109, in bill in equity against Dr. John T. Christy et al. Bill for an account.
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Appeal, No. 436, Jan. T., 1893, by plaintiffs, Gallitzin A. Christy et al., from decree of C. P. Blair Co., No. 109, in bill in equity against Dr. John T. Christy et al. Bill for an account. Before Landis, P. J. The bill, filed May 2,1884, alleged that Francis X. Christy, late of Gallitzin township, Cambria county, died on Sept. 6, 1876, seized, inter alia, of a tract of land in Gallitzin township, Cambria county, containing 200 acres, and also another tract of land warranted in the name of Catharine Hester, containing 415 acres, more or less. • That said Francis X. Christy left to survive…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Williams,
This case depends on the construction of the will of Francis X. Christy, the general scheme of which is somewhat obscure. He left to survive him a wife and eight children. He was the owner of a large body of unimproved land near the town of Gallitzin in Blair county which was chiefly valuable for the coal measures known to underlie it. In preparing his will he-was evidently inops consilii, and made use of words that, however clear they may have seemed to him, were not well chosen. He seems to have considered his lands as having a surface value,, and a mineral…
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