Meyer's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 77, Jan. T., 1911, by Charles J. Weiss, Trustee in Bankruptcy, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., April T., 1904, No, 193, dismissing exceptions to adjudication in Estate of C. A. Adolph Meyer, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. From the record it appeared that testator died December 19, 1902, leaving a will by which he gave his residuary estate to his daughter, Clara L. Beihl, and her husband, Ernest H. Beihl, “absolutely and forever, as tenants by entireties.”
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Appeal, No. 77, Jan. T., 1911, by Charles J. Weiss, Trustee in Bankruptcy, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., April T., 1904, No, 193, dismissing exceptions to adjudication in Estate of C. A. Adolph Meyer, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. From the record it appeared that testator died December 19, 1902, leaving a will by which he gave his residuary estate to his daughter, Clara L. Beihl, and her husband, Ernest H. Beihl, “absolutely and forever, as tenants by entireties.” On July 2, 1909, Ernest H. Beihl was adjudicated a bankrupt by the United States district court, and Charles J. Weiss…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Stewart,
The appeal is by the trustee in bankruptcy of the estate *91of Ernest H. Beihl from a decree of the orphans’ court in the adjudication of the account of the trustees under the last will of C. A. Adolph Meyer, deceased, awarding the fund before the court to Ernest H. Beihl and Clara, his wife. The appellant claims the fund in virtue of his office in bankruptcy; the appellees on the ground that the estate vested in them as husband and wife. It is not questioned that under the will through which this estate was derived, husband and wife took by entireties, if indeed…
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