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PEOPLES FIRST NATIONAL BANK & TR. CO v. UNITED STATES

No. 11898.

241 F.2d 420 (1957)

PEOPLES FIRST NATIONAL BANK & TRUST COMPANY, Executor Under the Will of Sarah G. Ricketson, Deceased, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided February 14, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Arensberg, Pittsburgh, Pa. (Patterson, Crawford, Arensberg & Dunn, Pittsburgh, Pa., on the brief), for appellant.

L. W. Post, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Charles K. Rice, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lee A. Jackson, Hilbert P. Zarky, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., D. Malcolm Anderson, Jr., U. S. Atty., Thomas J. Shannon, Asst. U. S. Atty., Pittsburgh, Pa., on the brief), for appellee.

Before BIGGS, Chief Judge, and GOODRICH and HASTIE, Circuit Judges.

BIGGS, Chief Judge.

Sarah G. Ricketson, the decedent, was the daughter of John Ricketson who died testate in 1900. By his will Ricketson devised his family homestead in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, to his wife Clementine for life with remainder to his two sons, Oliver and John, Jr. Sarah was given the right to select a plot of ground out of the homestead of sufficient size to erect, should she wish to do so, a house with "a convenient curtilage," to have and to hold...

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