Aubert's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia county: Of July Term 1884, No. 163. This was the appeal of Jean Ernest Aubert from the decree of the Orphans’ Court for the county of Philadelphia sustaining the exceptions of Thomas H. De Silver and Caroline E. Getz, residuary legatees, and The Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities, trustee under the will of George P. De Silver deceased, to the distribution made of the residuary estate of said…
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia county: Of July Term 1884, No. 163. This was the appeal of Jean Ernest Aubert from the decree of the Orphans’ Court for the county of Philadelphia sustaining the exceptions of Thomas H. De Silver and Caroline E. Getz, residuary legatees, and The Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities, trustee under the will of George P. De Silver deceased, to the distribution made of the residuary estate of said testator by the Auditing Judge. At the audit before Ashman, J., the following facts appeared: George P. De Silver a citizen…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
The will of George P. De Silver, a citizen of this state, was proved June 6th, 1873, by which lie gave $60,000 in trust, to invest the same and pay the income as follows: “To my wife Elizabeth DeSilver, during her life, and upon her decease to pay one half the said principal sum to such person or persons, and in such manner as she, my wife, may by her last will and testament duly executed according to the law of her domicil order and appoint, and in default of such appointment the said one half of the said principal sum shall form part of my residuary estate.”
The widow of Mr. De Silver…
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