Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1917

Cross v. Dye

Cross v. Dye
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Decided October 19, 1917 · Brown, Frazer, Mestrezat, Stewart, Waleino
259 Pa. 207; 102 A. 816; 1917 Pa. LEXIS 540

Cross v. Dye

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam,

This judgment is affirmed on the following from the charge of the court in directing a verdict for the defendant: β€œIn the opinion of the court the will in question created 'in Marietta R. Cross, daughter of Harriet R. Cross, the testatrix, an estate tail which estate, under the Act of Assembly in this State passed in 1855, *209became a fee simple estate in Marietta E. Cross, and as we view it by her deeds there finally became vested in A. J. Dye, the defendant in this case, a fee simple to the property in question.”

Judgment affirmed.

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