Legal Opinion

Hay's Estate

Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Northampton County

Decided April 23, 1923Published

1Opinion of the Court

Stewart, P. J.,

— Partition proceedings were commenced to divide the real estate of Jacob Hay, situate at the corner of Fourteenth and Spring Garden Streets, in the City of Easton, by one of the grandsons who owned a sixteenth interest therein. In the present proceeding, the owners of three other sixteenths unite with him in opposing the petition of Thomas A. H. Hay, who was one of the executors of Jacob Hay, and also an owner of a one-fourth interest, to intervene. The petition to intervene sets forth that the testator, in his lifetime, desired that the property in suit should be used as a…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. McCloskey v. KirkSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1914
  2. Crofton v. St. Clement's ChurchSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1904
  3. Caldwell v. SnyderSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1896
  4. Binswanger v. HymanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1921
  5. Appeal of RawleSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1888

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