24 App. D.C. 127 - Howard v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
February 2010
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Patch v. White · Kenaday v. Sinnott · Given v. Hilton · Young Women's Christian Home v. French · Hammond's Lessee v. Inloes
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“Bearing these rules in mind, we are of the opinion that the will did not pass the title to lot 8 in block 594. ... As to lot 8, Bolden Evans died intestate, and the title thereto passed to the plaintiff as his heir at law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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