Westfall v. Washlagel
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 50, Jan. T., 1901, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 2, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1900, No. 214, on case stated in suit of John L. Westfall v. Frederick Washlagel. Case stated to determine the marketable title to real estate.
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Appeal, No. 50, Jan. T., 1901, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 2, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1900, No. 214, on case stated in suit of John L. Westfall v. Frederick Washlagel. Case stated to determine the marketable title to real estate. The material portion of the case stated was as follows : On April 8, 1851, by deed duly recorded on October 24, 1858, in the office for the recording of deeds, etc., in and for the city and county of Philadelphia, in deed book T. H., No. 107, page 504, etc. Samuel Sheble, George Russell and John Edgar, trustees of the Franklin Land Association of the…
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Opinion by
Mb. Justice Bbown,
The alleged cloud on the title of the appellant is a deed from Mahlon Fowler to William M. Dickerson, dated November 4, 1853, and recorded August 7, 1873. On January 31, 1857, Mahlon Fowler made his will, which was admitted to probate April 2, 1857, by the terms of which he devised all his real estate to his wife for life, with the remainder to their son, Oliver, in fee. The widow subsequently remarried, and, on April 20, 1872, she and the son, Oliver, as devisees of the lots in question under the will of Mahlon Fowler, conveyed them to Rachel Brown, through whom…
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