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BARBER v. PITTSBURGH &C. RAILWAY

No. 431.

166 U.S. 83 (1897)

17 S.Ct. 488

41 L.Ed. 925

BARBER, v. PITTSBURGH, FORT WAYNE AND CHICAGO RAILWAY COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 1, 1897.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William T. Barber, Mr. John S. Ferguson and Mr. S. Duffield Mitchell for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Johns McCleave and Mr. D.T. Watson for Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway Company, defendants in error, and Mr. William Scott and Mr. George B. Gordon for the Pennsylvania Company, defendants in error, filed a joint brief, contending:

MR. JUSTICE GRAY, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The real question between the parties, upon which the decision of this case must turn, is what estate Amanda Stephens took under the will of James S. Stevenson, by which he devised to her certain lots of land in Pittsburgh, and further provided as follows: "In the event of Amanda dying unmarried, or, if married, dying without offspring by her husband...

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