Legal Opinion

Whitman's Estate

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided March 1, 1915No. Appeals, Nos. 364 and 365PublishedCited by 46 opinions

Appeals, Nos. 364 and 365, Jan. T., 1914, by Lillian W. Woolman and Edward W. Manderson, executor and trustee under the will of Ida S. Whitman, deceased, from decree of O. C. Philadelphia Co., Jan. T., 1912, No. 433, dismissing exceptions to adjudication, in estate of Horace F. Whitman, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. Before Gummey, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts.

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Appeals, Nos. 364 and 365, Jan. T., 1914, by Lillian W. Woolman and Edward W. Manderson, executor and trustee under the will of Ida S. Whitman, deceased, from decree of O. C. Philadelphia Co., Jan. T., 1912, No. 433, dismissing exceptions to adjudication, in estate of Horace F. Whitman, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. Before Gummey, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court dismissed the exceptions in an opinion by Anderson, J. Lillian W. Woolman and Edward W. Manderson, executor and trustee under the will of Ida S. Whitman, deceased, appealed. Errors assigned were…

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Moschzisker,

Horace F. Whitman, by his will dated in 1904, gave the residue of his estate in trust to pay the net income therefrom to his wife for life, and upon her death to his daughter (now Lillian W. Woolman) for life, “free from the control of any husband she may now have or hereafter take”; he then provided, “From and immediately after the decease of my said daughter.....to divide the principal.....to and among the child or children of my said daughter......in equal shares, the shares of any male issue or children......to be paid to them on their respectively…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. George Johnston's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1898
  2. Estate of LawrencePennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County · 1890
  3. Appeal of CogginsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1889
  4. Kountz's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1906
  5. Gerber's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1900

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3Cited by46 opinions

  1. Feeney's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1928
  2. Lockhart's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1932
  3. Lilley's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1922
  4. Colonial Trust Co. v. BrownSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1926
  5. Quigley's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1938

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