Kvist's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 83, Oct. T., 1916, by Alfred E. Randall, from decree of O. O. Allegheny Co., Jan. T., 1916, No. 88, dismissing exceptions to adjudication in Estate of Anna Kvist, Deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. Before Miller, J. The auditing judge found that Alfred E. Randall had failed to support his wife for more than one year before her death, and was barred by the provisions of the Act of May 4, 1855, P. L. 430, from taking any share in her estate.
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Appeal, No. 83, Oct. T., 1916, by Alfred E. Randall, from decree of O. O. Allegheny Co., Jan. T., 1916, No. 88, dismissing exceptions to adjudication in Estate of Anna Kvist, Deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. Before Miller, J. The auditing judge found that Alfred E. Randall had failed to support his wife for more than one year before her death, and was barred by the provisions of the Act of May 4, 1855, P. L. 430, from taking any share in her estate. The Orphans’ Court dismissed exceptions to the adjudication and entered a decree in accordance therewith. Alfred E. Randall appealed. Errors…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Frazer,
Alfred E. Randall appeals from a decree of the Orphans’ Court of Allegheny County distributing the estate of his deceased wife among her next of kin to the exclusion of appellant on the ground that by his failure to support his wife for more than one year before her death, he is barred by the provisions of the Act of May 4, 1855, P. L. 430, from taking any share in her estate.
Mrs. Randall, who lived under her maiden name, Anna Kvist, married appellant October 21, 1900, in New York City, and, after keeping a boarding house for a year following her marriage, both…
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- In re Estate of ComlySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1898
- Greenawalt v. McEnelleySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1877
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