Zimmerman v. Lebo
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 12, May. T., 1892, by defendants, Joseph Lebo and Sarah Lebo, his wife, in right of said wife, from judgment of C. P. Dauphin Co., March T., 1891, No. 356, on verdict for plaintiff, Susanna Zimmerman. Dower to recover widow’s interest in land. The facts as they appeared at the trial before SiMONTON, P. J., are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court left to the jury the bona fides of the administrator’s sale. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff.
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Appeal, No. 12, May. T., 1892, by defendants, Joseph Lebo and Sarah Lebo, his wife, in right of said wife, from judgment of C. P. Dauphin Co., March T., 1891, No. 356, on verdict for plaintiff, Susanna Zimmerman. Dower to recover widow’s interest in land. The facts as they appeared at the trial before SiMONTON, P. J., are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court left to the jury the bona fides of the administrator’s sale. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff. Defendants appealed. .Errors assigned were, inter alia, (3) the portion of the charge quoted in the opinion of the Supreme…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Williams,
The plaintiff seeks to recover dower in one hundred and eighty-five acres of land having farm buildings and a gristmill thereon. The title was in her husband Nathaniel Zimmerman, at the time of his death in' February, 1888. Her father, J ohn Hoffman, administered upon her husband’s estate, and sold the farm, of which he died seized, for the payment of his debts.
The sale was made under the authority of an order of the’ orphans’ court for seven thousand three hundred dollars, subject to a mortgage upon which one thousand dollars and some accrued interest remained…
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