Vincent's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia: No. 227, to January Term 1868. The appeal was by Catharine E. Vincent, in her own right and as guardian of William Henry Vincent, a minor, from the decree of the Orphans’ Court distributing the estate of Vincent De Amarelli. The parties were the executors and the legatees except Mrs. Vincent on the one side, and Mrs. Vincent on the other.
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Appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia: No. 227, to January Term 1868. The appeal was by Catharine E. Vincent, in her own right and as guardian of William Henry Vincent, a minor, from the decree of the Orphans’ Court distributing the estate of Vincent De Amarelli. The parties were the executors and the legatees except Mrs. Vincent on the one side, and Mrs. Vincent on the other. The decedent died on the 26th of February 1864, leaving a will dated July 15th 1852, with five codicils, dated respectively July 6th 1855, November 18th 1856, June 26th 1860, June 24th 1861, and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Agnew, J.
— Catharine Evans, an humble Irish Catholic girl, then about sixteen years of age, leaving her parents, came to the United States in 1851, and lived for a time with an aunt in this city, sometimes going out to service, and sometimes learning to sew, and married the testator, as all • her relatives believed, in 1858. There is not a spark of evidence against her purity, and not a breath of suspicion had sullied her reputation previous to her reputed marriage.
Vincencio De Amarelli, sometimes called an Italian and sometimes a Frenchman, came to…
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