Appeal of Dodge
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from a decree of the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia county: Of January Term, 1884, No. 144. This was an appeal by Caroline E. Dodge and Sarah V. Blake from a decree of the said court, sustaining the exceptions of Mrs. Amelia Ryan to the adjudication upon the account of Samuel White, trustee under the will of Letitia G. Ryan, deceased, and awarding to the said Mrs. Amelia Ryan the sum in dispute.
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Appeal from a decree of the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia county: Of January Term, 1884, No. 144. This was an appeal by Caroline E. Dodge and Sarah V. Blake from a decree of the said court, sustaining the exceptions of Mrs. Amelia Ryan to the adjudication upon the account of Samuel White, trustee under the will of Letitia G. Ryan, deceased, and awarding to the said Mrs. Amelia Ryan the sum in dispute. The facts of the case were as follows: The testatrix, Letitia Ryan, died testate, leaving surviving her a husband, two daughters, Caroline E. Dodge and Sarah Virginia Blake, and one son, Edward…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
This contention hinges on the construction of the hereinafter quoted clause in the will of Mrs. Letitia G. Ryan, who died, leaving her husband, a son and two daughters surviving her. The testatrix devised certain real estate to her brother Samuel White, in trust to permit her husband to occupy or rent the same, “ and to receive, take, hold and enjoy the rents, issues, profits and income thereof to his own use absolutely,” during life; and, after his decease, “one third of the aforesaid rents, issues, profits and income to bo paid to Caroline E. Dodge, one third to be paid to Sarah Virginia…
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