Estate of Bryant
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 12, July T., 1895, by George E. Bryant, Henry L. Bryant, Abbey E. Taylor, William E. Bryant, Jennie Bryant White, Charles E. Bryant, Frederick W. Bryant, Carrie D. Matson, Frank E. Bryant, Anna Bryant, Hiram E. Bryant and Adeline F. Bussinger, claimants to the estate of Charles Bryant, deceased, from decree O. C. Phila. Co., July T., 1894, No. 182, awarding estate to Ann Chance and others, English claimants.
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Appeal, No. 12, July T., 1895, by George E. Bryant, Henry L. Bryant, Abbey E. Taylor, William E. Bryant, Jennie Bryant White, Charles E. Bryant, Frederick W. Bryant, Carrie D. Matson, Frank E. Bryant, Anna Bryant, Hiram E. Bryant and Adeline F. Bussinger, claimants to the estate of Charles Bryant, deceased, from decree O. C. Phila. Co., July T., 1894, No. 182, awarding estate to Ann Chance and others, English claimants. The facts sufficiently appear by the adjudication of the court below, Ashman, J., which is in part as follows: Charles Bryant died at the age of seventy years, on July 26,…
1Opinion of the Court
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Mr. Justice Mitchell,
Charles Bryant died intestate, in July, 1893, aged about seventy. He had been married but his wife and only child were dead, and he was without known relatives. He was a seafaring man, but had made his home in Philadelphia for forty odd years, had left the sea for twenty-five years, and during most of that time had been in the grocery business, but was well known in nautical circles as Captain Bryant. The parties to the present litigation are claimants of his estate, and their claims depend upon the question of identity.
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