Cross's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 313, 314 and 317, Jan. T., 1923, by Edwin M. Cherry et al., heirs at law, from judgment of C. P. Erie Co., Sept. T., 1919, No. 205, on verdict sustaining will, and appeals Nos. 316, 317 and 318, Jan. T., 1923, by same appellants, on decree of O. O. Erie Co., Feb. T., 1919, No. 160, sustaining findings of the Common Pleas in estate of C. W. Cross, alias Will Cross, deceased. Issue devisavit vel non.
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Appeals, Nos. 313, 314 and 317, Jan. T., 1923, by Edwin M. Cherry et al., heirs at law, from judgment of C. P. Erie Co., Sept. T., 1919, No. 205, on verdict sustaining will, and appeals Nos. 316, 317 and 318, Jan. T., 1923, by same appellants, on decree of O. O. Erie Co., Feb. T., 1919, No. 160, sustaining findings of the Common Pleas in estate of C. W. Cross, alias Will Cross, deceased. Issue devisavit vel non. Before Whittelsey, P. J. and McCormick, J., in the common pleas, and Clark, P. J., in the orphans’ court. See 4, Erie Co., L. J. 322. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Moschzisker,
Each of the three appellants in these cases attack, first, the judgment of the court of common pleas, entered on an issue submitted to it by the orphans’ court, and, next, the decree of the latter tribunal upon the findings of the former. All six appeals were argudd together and will be so disposed of in this opinion.
C. W. Cross died January 29, 1919, and immediately thereafter letters of administration were granted on his estate. March 10, 1919, an informally drawn paper, in a somewhat “blurred” condition, purporting to be the will of decedent, was…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Cutler's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1909
- Tetlow's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1921
- Fleming's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1919
- Miles's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1922
- Paxson's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1909
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