Estate of Blake
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
' APPEAL BY A. B. CHILCOTT, FROM THE ORPHANS’ COURT OE MONTGOMERY COUNTY. No. 160 January Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court-below, No. 150 June Term 1889, O. C. John Blake, Jr., trustee to sell the real estate of John Blake, Sr., deceased, having settled an account exhibiting a balance for distribution amounting to $10,834.30, the proceeds of a sale of real estate under the act of April IS, 1853, P. L. 503, the court, below appointed Mr. Franklin March auditor to distribute said…
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' APPEAL BY A. B. CHILCOTT, FROM THE ORPHANS’ COURT OE MONTGOMERY COUNTY. No. 160 January Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court-below, No. 150 June Term 1889, O. C. John Blake, Jr., trustee to sell the real estate of John Blake, Sr., deceased, having settled an account exhibiting a balance for distribution amounting to $10,834.30, the proceeds of a sale of real estate under the act of April IS, 1853, P. L. 503, the court, below appointed Mr. Franklin March auditor to distribute said fund. The auditor found the following facts: Abraham Blake, father of John Blake, Sr., deceased, died about 1864, seised…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Williams :
Abraham Blake died in 1864. By his last will he directed that his real estate, which consisted of a farm of 55 acres, and his personal property, should be sold and converted into money by his executor. Out of the fund thus provided he directed the payment of certain specific legacies, and gave the remainder of his estate to four residuary legatees in equal shares. The specific legacies were a charge upon the testator’s real estate for two reasons : first, because of the blending of the personal and real estate into one fund for the payment of legacies; second,…
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