Morrison v. Nellis
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, of Allegheny county: of October Term 1886, Nos. 242 and 243. These were two actions of ejectment for three individual interests in a parcel of land situate in the city of Allegheny, Allegheny county, brought respectively by James A. Morrison and Benjamin F. Hastings against A. J. Nellis and others, and. by Richard B. Morrison against the same defendants. Pleas not guilty.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, of Allegheny county: of October Term 1886, Nos. 242 and 243. These were two actions of ejectment for three individual interests in a parcel of land situate in the city of Allegheny, Allegheny county, brought respectively by James A. Morrison and Benjamin F. Hastings against A. J. Nellis and others, and. by Richard B. Morrison against the same defendants. Pleas not guilty. The following are the facts of the case as they appeared on the trial before Ewing, P. J. R. B. Morrison and J. A. Morrison are children of Mrs. Elizabeth Florence Morrison, one of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Trunkey
Had the Orphans’ Court of Allegheny county jurisdiction to make the decree for sale of the land which was owned by the minors subject to the life estate of their father? If so, there is no evidence to defeat the title of the defendants.. , .
The petition set forth the nature of the title of the minors to the undivided one half of the lot, that it would be for the interest of said minors to sell the same, that the co-tenant in common offered a certain sum which the petitioner regarded a reasonable price, and better, under the circumstances, than could' be obtained at public sale, and that the…
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