Fitzgibbon's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 140, 141, 142 and 163, Oct. T., 1921, by Gertrude G. Fitzgibbon, Eleanor Fitzgibbon and Margaret V. Fitzgibbon, from decree of O. O. Allegheny Co., April T., 1920, No. 126, dismissing exceptions to adjudication, in estate of William Fitzgibbon, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication.
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Appeals, Nos. 140, 141, 142 and 163, Oct. T., 1921, by Gertrude G. Fitzgibbon, Eleanor Fitzgibbon and Margaret V. Fitzgibbon, from decree of O. O. Allegheny Co., April T., 1920, No. 126, dismissing exceptions to adjudication, in estate of William Fitzgibbon, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. Before Miller, P. J. William Fitzgibbon died on September 12, 1916, leaving to survive him Gertrude Fitzgibbon, his wife, and three daughters, Eleanor Fitzgibbon, Frances F. Grote, wife of Ludwig I. Grote and Margaret V. Fitzgibbon. Mrs. Grote died on April 26, 1919, leaving her husband to survive…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Schaffer,
These appeals are from a decree of distribution in the estate of William Pitzgibbon; much testimony was taken on the hearings, but, as we view the vital questions at issue, almost all of it is without any bearing on them, and can be disregarded, because what is involved is the construction of two papers, the will of William Fitzgibbon, and an agreement executed after his death by his three children. These papers speak their own meaning, without extraneous aid, except in one particular, to which we will advert hereafter.
Testator, as his will, which he wrote…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Windolph v. Girard Trust Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1914
- Phillips's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1903
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- McCutcheon's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1925
- Fitzgibbon's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1923
- Willis Estate, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County1957