Brandmeier v. Pond Creek Coal Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 170, Jan. T., 1906, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Luzerne Co., Dec. T., 1903, No. 409, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Frederick Brandmeier et al. v. Pond Creek Coal Company. Ejectment for coal in Foster township. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court gave binding instructions for plaintiffs.
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Appeal, No. 170, Jan. T., 1906, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Luzerne Co., Dec. T., 1903, No. 409, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Frederick Brandmeier et al. v. Pond Creek Coal Company. Ejectment for coal in Foster township. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court gave binding instructions for plaintiffs. The jury returned a verdict “ in favor of the plaintiffs, and against the defendant for an undivided one-half interest of the premises described in the writ, and apportion said half as follows: an undivided one-fourth to Erederick Brandmeier and an undivided…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Brown,
Barbara Brandmeier was the owner of the forty acres of land in dispute, by deed from David Dean, dated May 10, 1862, and duly recorded. She died intestate June 16, 1893, seized of this land, and left surviving her a husband, Ludwig Brandmeier, and five children, Frederick, Mary, John, Susan and Elizabeth. ’ Elizabeth was married to George Fernau, and died since her mother’s death and before that of her father, intestate, childless, and leaving her husband to survive her. Ludwig Brandmeier remarried, and, on January 15, 1896, executed a lease for twenty-oneyears of…
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