Appeal of Priestley
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
EROM THE DECREE OE THE ORPHANS’ COURT OE NORTHUM-BERLAND COUNTY. Nos. 242, 371 January Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 48 February Term 1887, O. C. On April 11, 1887, the petition of Ann O. Rodrigue was presented, setting forth, in substance : That Hugh Bellas, late of the borough of Sunbury, died having made his last will duly admitted to probate, in a codicil to which, dated November 3, 1860, be devised to trustees a certain portion of bis property in trust for Ann…
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EROM THE DECREE OE THE ORPHANS’ COURT OE NORTHUM-BERLAND COUNTY. Nos. 242, 371 January Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 48 February Term 1887, O. C. On April 11, 1887, the petition of Ann O. Rodrigue was presented, setting forth, in substance : That Hugh Bellas, late of the borough of Sunbury, died having made his last will duly admitted to probate, in a codicil to which, dated November 3, 1860, be devised to trustees a certain portion of bis property in trust for Ann C. Rodrigue, providing: “ And tbe said trustees or either of them are required to apply all tbe proceeds and profits…
1Opinion of the Court
No. 371.
Opinion,
Mr. Chief Justice Paxson :
The account of Dr. Joseph Priestley, which is the cause of the present contention, was confirmed absolutely December 6, 1882, and on. the lltli day of the same month he was discharged as trustee by the court on his own petition. Pie died on March 10, 1888, and letters of administration were granted to Hannah PI. Priestley, the appellant, on March 28,1883. More than four years after Dr. Priestley’s death, Mrs. Rodrigue, the appellee, presented the petition in this case for a review of his account as trustee. The whole contention was about a matter of…
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