Garver v. Clouser

Decision Date03 June 1907
Docket Number170
PartiesGarver v. Clouser, Appellant
CourtPennsylvania Supreme Court

Submitted May 27, 1907

Appeal, No. 170, Jan. T., 1907, by defendant, from judgment of C.P. Juniata Co., Feb. T., 1907, No. 16, for plaintiff on case stated in suit of Solomon Garver v. Watson D. Clouser. Affirmed.

Case stated to determine the marketable title to real estate.

Plaintiff claimed title under the second clause of the will of Elizabeth Kauffman, deceased, which was as follows:

"Second I bequeath to Solomon Garver, of Township and County aforesaid, all my estate, real, personal or mixed, which I may possess at the time of my death, to hold the same during his natural life, and after that to his legal heirs to do with it as they see proper."

The court in an opinion by SHULL, P.J., held that the plaintiff had an estate in fee under the rule in Shelley's case.

Error assigned was in entering judgment for plaintiff on the case stated.

Judgment affirmed.

Louis E. Atkinson, for appellant.

F. M. M. Pennell, for appellee.

Before MITCHELL, C.J., BROWN, POTTER, ELKIN and STEWART, JJ.

OPINION

PER CURIAM:

This devise is too clearly within the rule in Shelley's case to require discussion.

Judgment affirmed.

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