Reiff v. Reiff
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery county: No. 195, to January Term 1870. This was an action of trespass commenced August 10th 1868, by Elizabeth P. Reiff, Letitia P. Reiff and Susanna P. Reiff against Charles P. Reiff.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery county: No. 195, to January Term 1870. This was an action of trespass commenced August 10th 1868, by Elizabeth P. Reiff, Letitia P. Reiff and Susanna P. Reiff against Charles P. Reiff. The whole facts in the case appear in the following charge of Judge Chapman, before whom the case was tried, November 17th 1869. “ This is an action of trespass, brought to recover damages for cutting and carrying away a quantity of grass, growing upon a tract of about 152 acres of land, which had been leased to the plaintiffs by Mary Reiff, their mother, and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered,
by Read, J.
— The plaintiffs in error were the lessees of a farm of 152 acres, from their mother a widow, who had a life estate in it under the will of her husband their father. They were annual lessees from the 1st April 1866, 1867 and 1868, the widow dying on the 15th June 1868. At the time of her death, there was standing uncut on the premises, a quantity of mixed timothy and clover grass, a quantity of grass part meadow and part timothy, and a quantity of timothy exclusively. The question *137was, was this grass emblements, belonging to the tenants of the…
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