Muhr's Estate
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 92, Oct. T., 1914, by Charles L. Wahler, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., Jan. T., 1896, No. 271, dismissing exceptions to adjudication in Estate of Simon Muhr, deceased. Exceptions to'adjudication.- At the audit Ida Wahler presented a claim for $3.00 per week from June 3, 1913, out of an annuity of $200 per year payable under testator’s will to Charles I. Wahler, her former husband.
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Appeal, No. 92, Oct. T., 1914, by Charles L. Wahler, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., Jan. T., 1896, No. 271, dismissing exceptions to adjudication in Estate of Simon Muhr, deceased. Exceptions to'adjudication.- At the audit Ida Wahler presented a claim for $3.00 per week from June 3, 1913, out of an annuity of $200 per year payable under testator’s will to Charles I. Wahler, her former husband. The evidence showed that on June 29, 1908, Charles I. Wahler and Ida Wahler, his wife, entered into a written agreement under seal without the intervention of a trustee, by which they agreed to live…
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Opinion by
Trexler, J.,
The agreement between the parties, after reciting that unhappy differences had arisen between them, provides for their living separate and apart, and for the payment of $3.00 per week to the wife in lieu of all claims and demands which she may have against her husband; the separation to continue during their respective lives. To secure the payment of the weekly sum, the husband assigned as collateral security a legacy due him in the estate of Simon Muhr, deceased, and the wife’s claim as assignee of the legacy, brings the question as to the scope of the agreement before…
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