Dennison's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was an appeal from the decree of the court of Common Pleas of Luzerne county, hy Charles Dennison, assignee of Mahlon Labar, in the matter of the appropriation of the money arising from the sale of the real estate of John W. Jenkins. The material facts in this case are distinctly stated in the opinion of this court.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
From the facts of the case, as admitted by the parties and reported by the auditor, it appeal’s that John W. Jenkins, from the sale of whose -eal estate the money in the court below was raised, and in regard to he appropriation of which the contest has arisen, became entitled, by descent on the 9th of January, a. d. 1839, on the death of his father, Benjamin Jenkins, to one undivided tenth part of a tract of land, situate in Luzerne county, of which the father died seised and intestate, leaving ten children, to whom it descended equally as…
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