Legal Opinion

Yeakel Estate

Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Lancaster County

Decided February 4, 1960No. 798 of 1958PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

The facts appear from the following extracts from the adjudication of

Bowman, Auditing Judge,

The petition for adjudication filed by the accountants suggests that one-fourth of the residuary estate be distributed to the First Methodist Church of Lancaster and the remainder to testatrix’ nephew, Paul H. Yeakel, it being stated therein that under the provisions of the quoted section of the Wills Act the gifts to the Lancaster General Hospital and the Cornwall Methodist Home are invalid.

It is not contended that the bequests to the First Methodist Church of Lancaster, the Cornwell Method*19ist Home…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Martin EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1950
  2. McGuigen EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1957

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Prynn EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1974

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