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· 5/25/1891

McClelland v. Brownfield

Citations

  • 142 Pa. 533
  • 21 A. 987
  • 1891 Pa. LEXIS 771

Syllabus

<p>(a) A testator devised to his daughter, “ for and during her natural life, all the cleared land belonging to ” him “ on the west side of the Union-town and Morgantown road, now enclosed, and strip of woodland fenced in with the same: ”</p> <p>1. The devise applied to an enclosed tract of thirty-four acres west of said road and containing a small strip of woodland, but did not embrace an unenclosed tract of thirteen acres of woodland, adjoining but separated from the former tract by a fence.</p>

Judges: McCollum, Mitchell, Paxson, Sterrett, Williams

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