Legal Opinion

Edwards's Estate

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided May 23, 1916No. Appeal, No. 125PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Appeal, No. 125, Oct. T., 1915, by Katherine M. Edwards, Charles E. Dickson and The Safe Deposit & Trust Company of Pittsburgh, Executors of the Estate of Eliza Thaw Edwards, Deceased, from decree of O. C. Allegheny Co., Sept. T., 1914, No. 443, dismissing exceptions to adjudication, in Estate of Eliza Thaw Edwards, Deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. Before Miller, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court dismissed the exceptions.

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Appeal, No. 125, Oct. T., 1915, by Katherine M. Edwards, Charles E. Dickson and The Safe Deposit & Trust Company of Pittsburgh, Executors of the Estate of Eliza Thaw Edwards, Deceased, from decree of O. C. Allegheny Co., Sept. T., 1914, No. 443, dismissing exceptions to adjudication, in Estate of Eliza Thaw Edwards, Deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. Before Miller, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court dismissed the exceptions. Katherine M. Edwards, Charles E. Dickson and The Safe Deposit & Trust Company of Pittsburgh, Executors of the Will of Eliza Thaw Edwards,…

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Mestrezat,

Eliza Thaw Edwards died' on May 13, 1912, testate, leaving to survive her four daughters, Burd B. E. Dickson, wife of Charles E. Dickson; Katherine M. Edwards, Eliza T. Edwards and Mary L. Edwards, and five grandchildren, the children of Mrs. Dickson. She appointed as her executors Katherine M. Edwards, Charles E. Dickson, and The Safe Deposit & Trust Company of Pittsburgh, to whom letters testamentary were granted on May 20, 1912. Mrs. Edwards’s will is dated August 8, 1906, and she added a codicil, dated August 3, 1908, and a second codicil, dated July…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Alsop's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1848
  2. Coale v. SmithSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1846

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Pennsylvania Co. for Insurances on Lives & Granting Annuities' AccountSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1919
  2. Edwards EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1948
  3. Massachusetts Audubon Society, Inc. v. Ormond Village Improvement Ass'nSupreme Court of Florida · 1942
  4. Dickson v. CommissionerUnited States Tax Court · 1949
  5. Riddle v. CommissionerUnited States Tax Court · 1954

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