Potter's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 380, Jan. T., 1916, by Jesse Wilkins Hallstead, by Ms mother and next friend, Maud Hallstead, from decree of O. C. Lackawanna Co., Year, 1914, No. 780, dismissing exceptions to adjudication, in Estate of Lucy A. Potter, Deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. Before Sando, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court dismissed the exceptions. Jesse Wilkins Hallstead, by his mother and next friend, Maud Hall-stead, appealed.
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Appeal, No. 380, Jan. T., 1916, by Jesse Wilkins Hallstead, by Ms mother and next friend, Maud Hallstead, from decree of O. C. Lackawanna Co., Year, 1914, No. 780, dismissing exceptions to adjudication, in Estate of Lucy A. Potter, Deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. Before Sando, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court dismissed the exceptions. Jesse Wilkins Hallstead, by his mother and next friend, Maud Hall-stead, appealed. Error assigned was in dismissing the exceptions. The decedent died intestate as to her residuary estate: Hitchcock v. Hitchcock, 35 Pa. 393;…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Me. Justice Walling,
Lucy A. Potter made her will in 1906; and in the eighth and ninth paragraphs gave her nephew, Erwin M. Hallstead, certain furniture and household effects; and the fourteenth paragraph thereof is:
“Fourteenth. I order and direct that after the payment of all debts, legacies, expenses and charges herein mentioned, the money arising from my estate shall be safely invested by my executor in bank or real estate seicurities, and the income therefrom paid only annually to my said nephew, Erwin M. Hallstead, during the term of his natural life. Should the said Erwin M.…
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