King v. Frick
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY DEPENDANT PROM THE COURT OP COMMON PLEAS OF YORK COUNTY. No. 387 January Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 46 August Term 1889, C. P. On Juno 3, 1889, a case stated was filed wherein Harry B. King was plaintiff and John J. Frick was defendant, to determine whether the plaintiff under the will of his father, E. A. King, deceased, dated February 7,1877, and duly admitted to probate on May 14, 1877, had a marketable title to certain lands devised to him in said…
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APPEAL BY DEPENDANT PROM THE COURT OP COMMON PLEAS OF YORK COUNTY. No. 387 January Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 46 August Term 1889, C. P. On Juno 3, 1889, a case stated was filed wherein Harry B. King was plaintiff and John J. Frick was defendant, to determine whether the plaintiff under the will of his father, E. A. King, deceased, dated February 7,1877, and duly admitted to probate on May 14, 1877, had a marketable title to certain lands devised to him in said will, which lands be had covenanted to convey to the defendant. The disposing provisions of said will were as follows : “…
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P.eb Curiam:
VYe think the court below correctly held that the plaintiff, Harry B. King, took a fee in the real estate devised to him by E. A. King, his father. The language of said will, over which the present contention arises, is as follows:
“ All my estate, real, personal and mixed, not bequeathed or devised to my said wife as aforesaid, I give, devise, and bequeath to mjr said son Harry B. King, and to his heirs and assigns, forever, subject to the events and conditions aforesaid. If my said son should die without children, grandchildren or wife living, then his portion of his estate under…
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