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CROPLEY v. COOPER

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86 U.S. 167 (1874)

19 Wall. 167

22 L.Ed. 109

CROPLEY, v. COOPER.

Supreme Court of United States.

March 3, 1874.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was elaborately argued on principle and authority, by Messrs. W.D. Davidge and F.W. Jones, for the appellant, and by Messrs. J.H. Bradley and R.T. Merrick, contra.

Mr. Justice SWAYNE delivered the opinion of the court.

This case turns upon the following clause of the will of William Cooper, deceased:

"To my daughter, Elizabeth Cropley, at her mother's death, I give and bequeath the rent of my house on Pennsylvania Avenue, in the city of Washington, situated on square ____, for and during her life; and at her decease it is my will that the said ____ be sold, and the avails therefrom become the property of her children...

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