Snyder's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 121, Oct. T., 1923, by Mary Snyder Drew, decedent’s daughter, from decree of O. C. Allegheny Co., June T., 1921, No. 415, dismissing exceptions to findings of fact and conclusions of law on appeal from register of wills admitting to probate papers purporting to be will and codicil in estate of William Penn Snyder. Exceptions to findings of fact and conclusions of law of Trimble, J., on appeal from register of wills.
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Appeal, No. 121, Oct. T., 1923, by Mary Snyder Drew, decedent’s daughter, from decree of O. C. Allegheny Co., June T., 1921, No. 415, dismissing exceptions to findings of fact and conclusions of law on appeal from register of wills admitting to probate papers purporting to be will and codicil in estate of William Penn Snyder. Exceptions to findings of fact and conclusions of law of Trimble, J., on appeal from register of wills. Exceptions dismissed by Work, P. J., specially presiding, Miller, P. J., and Trimble, J. Mary Snyder Drew, decedent’s daughter, appealed. Error assigned was, inter…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Simpson,
This is a second appeal in a will contest; on the first one we simply affirmed the court below for ordering a rehearing: Snyder’s Est., 274 Pa. 574. Much testimony was then produced by appellant, who is decedent’s only daughter, and by proponents. In a masterly opinion, the trial judge reviewed it fully, and advised a dismissal of the petition for an issue devisavit vel non: (1st) Because appellant was estopped from making the contest, since she had received from decedent much money and property (which she still retains, and has not offered to return) during the…
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