Hilton's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 49, Oct. T., 1918, by Albert J. Hilton et al., from decree of O. O. Washington Co., Feb. T., 1918, No. 20,.dismissing appeal from Register of Wills granting administration to Sarah Hilton in Estate of Wallace J. Hilton. Appeal from order of register of wills. . Before Mc-ILVAINE, P. J. Error assigned was decree dismissing appeal.
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Appeal, No. 49, Oct. T., 1918, by Albert J. Hilton et al., from decree of O. O. Washington Co., Feb. T., 1918, No. 20,.dismissing appeal from Register of Wills granting administration to Sarah Hilton in Estate of Wallace J. Hilton. Appeal from order of register of wills. . Before Mc-ILVAINE, P. J. Error assigned was decree dismissing appeal. If when the decedent attempted to enter into the illegal marriage with Sarah McPherson on March 5,1896, he had a wife living,, such attempted marriage was utterly nugatory, and conferred no- rights whatever upon Sarah McPherson: Thewlis’s Est., 217 Pa.…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Frazer,
Wallace J. Hilton, colored, died August 19, 1915, intestate and without issue. On March 5, 1896, Hilton married Sarah' McPherson, pursuant to a license pre*18viously obtained in Washington County on October 29, 1895, and from the date of the marriage until decedent’s death they lived together as man and wife. After Hilton’s death Kizziah J. Hilton, claiming as surviving widow, filed in the office of the register of wills a renunciation of her right to letters of administration on Hilton’s estate and requested the appointment of Albert J. Hilton, a brother of…
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