Campbell's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 369, Jan. T., 1922, by Ruth Campbell Bryson, from decree of O. C. Fayette Co., Dec. T. 1919, No. 60, dismissing exceptions to adjudication, in estate of W. E. Campbell, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. Before Work, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Exceptions dismissed. Ruth Campbell Bryson appealed. Error assigned, inter alia, was decree, quoting it.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Schaefer,
W. E. Campbell, out of the distribution of whose estate the present controversy arises, died December 18, 1918, leaving a will, bequeathing all his property to a daughter, Ruth C. Bryson. On December 5, 1918, being sick in Pittsburgh with the illness from which he subsequently died, he asked a friend named Richards, who had called *549to see him, to witness a check which he, Campbell, had drawn on a savings bank in favor of his brother, A. Earl Campbell (appellee), for four thousand dollars, representing the exact sum on deposit to the drawer’s credit. That the…
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