Snyder v. Markel
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the common pleas of Northumberland county. Joseph B. Snyder and John P. Snyder against John Markel. Ejectment for a house and lot in Milton. John A. Snyder, the father of the plaintiffs, died seised of the lot in controversy, having first made a will, by which he devised it to the plaintiffs, and appointed Joseph Bound, Adam Steitzel and Philip H. Snyder, his executors.
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ERROR to the common pleas of Northumberland county. Joseph B. Snyder and John P. Snyder against John Markel. Ejectment for a house and lot in Milton. John A. Snyder, the father of the plaintiffs, died seised of the lot in controversy, having first made a will, by which he devised it to the plaintiffs, and appointed Joseph Bound, Adam Steitzel and Philip H. Snyder, his executors. In 1818, these executors petitioned the orphans’ court to grant them an order for the sale of the real estate of the testator, including the house and lot in dispute, for the payment of debts. ' Annexed to their…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
Both parties on the trial derived their claim to the land in controversy, from John A. Snyder, who died seised of afee simple estate therein. The plaintiffs claimed as the devisees of John A. Snyder, and the defendant derived his claim to the land from Solomon Ludwig, who bought it at a sale thereof made by the executors of John A. Snyder, under a decree of the orphans’ court, -of the comity in which the land is situate. The only question necessary to be decided is, had the orphans’ court jurisdiction over the subject in the way it was…
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