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10 Watts 274

Loomis v. M'Clintock

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided September 15, 1840

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1840-09-15

Ralph M*Clintock and others, devisees of Jane M’Cullough, against Luke Loomis and John Park. This was an action of ejectment for part of lot No. 386, in the city of Pittsburgh. The plaintiffs claim to recover possession of the property as heirs at law of Sarah Simpson, and devisees of Jane M’Cullough, deceased.

Decided 1840-09-15

¶1The opinion of the court was delivered by

Rogers, J.

¶2This is not the case of a- defective execution of a .power, as has been contended; for the executors had no power to sell until a certain period, which, had not arrived-at the time of the sale. The sale is therefore void, as is clearly shown by Justice Dallas, whose opinion we adopt. Here, time is not matter of form, but-substance; and the powers of the .executors depend on the intention of the testator, which w,as .to postpone the sale until his daugin ter Catherine attained the age of twenty-one years, or, in case of her death, until she would have attained that age.

¶3Judgment affirmed.

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