Billings's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 138, Jan. T., 1920, by Thomas A. Crichton, Administrator of Walter J. Sears, deceased, from decree of O. C. Tioga Co., Sept. T., 1916, No. 3, dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report in Estate of Sarah M. Billings. Exception to report of G. Mason Owlett, Esq., auditor. Before Smith, P. J., specially presiding. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court dismissed the exceptions to the auditor’s report.
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Appeal, No. 138, Jan. T., 1920, by Thomas A. Crichton, Administrator of Walter J. Sears, deceased, from decree of O. C. Tioga Co., Sept. T., 1916, No. 3, dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report in Estate of Sarah M. Billings. Exception to report of G. Mason Owlett, Esq., auditor. Before Smith, P. J., specially presiding. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court dismissed the exceptions to the auditor’s report. Thomas A. Crichton, administrator of Walter J. Sears, appealed. Errors assigned were dismissal of exceptions and entry of decree, quoting them.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Frazer,
Sarah M. Billings died in 1912, leaving a will in which she gave all her residuary estate “unto my nieces and nephews named to wit [naming them],.......share and share alike to be paid to them respectively” in the manner stated, with further provision, should any die before receiving his or her share, and without leaving children, the share of such deceased should become part of the residuary fund and go to the survivors. In a codicil testatrix revoked the residuary bequests made to a nephew and niece and directed the persons named should not share in the…
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