Estate of Farnum
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 371, Jan. T., 1898, by Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities, from decree of O. C. Delaware Co., Nov. T., 1898, No. , dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report. Exceptions to auditor’s report.
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Appeal, No. 371, Jan. T., 1898, by Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities, from decree of O. C. Delaware Co., Nov. T., 1898, No. , dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report. Exceptions to auditor’s report. Before Clayton, P. J. The auditor, Orlando Harvey, Esq., reported as follows : J. Edward Farnum died, domiciled in the county of Delaware, Pennsylvania, on May 15,1884, having first made and published his last will and testament and codicil thereto, dated respectively March 27, 1874, and December 23, 1881, duly proved and registered in the office of the register…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Gbeen,
We think the learned auditor in the court below has correctly disposed of the question at issue in this case. By the terms of the codicil the provisions of the will were expressly modified and changed, so that out of the shares of the daughters as fixed by the will there should be paid to the daughters respectively on their arrival at the age of twenty-one years, the sum of $20,000 absolutely. The title of the daughters to these sums of $20,000 each, is derived directly from the codicil, and the source from which these sums are to be taken is the principal of the…
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