Ehrhart's Estate
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 11, March T., 1906, by George Ehrhart, from decree of O. G. York Co., dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report in Estate of Priscilla Ehrhart, deceased. Exceptions to report of H. C. Brenneman, Esq., auditor. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Errors assigned were in dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Head, J.,
It is clear that the first distribution made by the auditor and the decree of the orphans’ court finally confirming the same were radically and seriously wrong. They resulted in depriving the appellees of the one-half of the entire personal estate of their deceased sister, Priscilla Lenhart, to which they were plainly entitled under the law, and in giving the same to the appellant, the surviving husband of the deceased, who was also *122her administrator, and who had no legal right whatever to that poi’tion of the fund.
Of such a result, even when brought about under forms of…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Whelen's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1872
- Johnson's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1886
- Milne's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1882
- Kinter's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1869
- Young's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1882
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Reamer's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1938
- Sloan's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1916
- Vought EstateSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1954
- Bain's EstatePennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County · 1922
- Donovan EstatePennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County · 1963
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