Mulholland's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 391, Jan. T., 1908, by James McDevitt, Executor, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., April T., 1902, No. 524, dismissing exceptions t'o master’s report in Estate of Sarah Mulholland, deceased. Exceptions to report of Henry G. Swayne, Esq., master. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was in dismissing exceptions to master’s report.
1Opinion of the Court
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Mr. Justice Mestrezat,
This case is so clearly and radically wrong that all that is necessary to reverse it is to state the undisputed facts. The error of the master and of the court may be attributed to the manner in which the case was presented for their consideration.
James Mulholland died in 1876, leaving to survive him five children and a brother Felix. He was seized in fee of certain real estate in the city of Philadelphia at the time of his death, and his five children conveyed to his brother Felix “one undivided sixth part of and in all the real and personal estate of which…
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