Wm. Drinkhouse's Est.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 147, Jan. T., 1892, by Elizabeth T. Drinkhouse et al. from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., July T. 1879, No. 95, dismissing exceptions to the adjudication of account of the Phila. Trust, Safe Deposit & Ins. Co., trustee of the estate of William Drinkhouse, deceased. Claim to participate in distribution, as grandchildren and heirs of decedent. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 147, Jan. T., 1892, by Elizabeth T. Drinkhouse et al. from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., July T. 1879, No. 95, dismissing exceptions to the adjudication of account of the Phila. Trust, Safe Deposit & Ins. Co., trustee of the estate of William Drinkhouse, deceased. Claim to participate in distribution, as grandchildren and heirs of decedent. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The auditing judge, Ashman, J., after reviewing the evidence, recited in the opinion of the Supreme Court, found as a fact that the claimants were legitimate children of Joseph W. Drinkhouse,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Heydbick,
The very able and earnest argument of the counsel for the appellants has failed to convince us that the learned court be*297low erred in finding that the appellees are the legitimate children of Joseph W. Drinkhouse, deceased. The auditing judge found the facts of a courtship of years followed by a marriage between the deceased and Maria Heaton, the mother of the appellees; the presence, at one time, of a marriage certificate, which was afterwards lost; the cohabitation of the parties; the birth of acknowledged issue; and a written declaration of the marriage in the…
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