Viosca's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 91, Oet. T., 1899, by Philip Engelskirger, from decree of O. 0. Allegheny County, June Term, 1898, No. 218, dismissing appeal from register of wills, in the estate of James Viosca, deceased. Appeal from register of wills. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was the decree of the court, dismissing the appeal from register of wills.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Dean,
James Viosca was a resident of Lower California in the republic of Mexico, where he died in June, 1895. At the date of his death he had in his possession a promissory note payable to his order eighteen months after date, in the sum of $31,250 signed by J. D. Springer, Allen Manvel!e and Charles Miller. The last named was a resident of Franklin, Venango county, Pennsylvania; the other two drawers were not residents of this state. On May 10, 1898, H. W. Mitchell of Pittsburg presented a petition to the register of Allegheny county setting out that the only estate of…
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