Alexander's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal No. 38, Jan. T., 1914, by Nettie I. Moyer, from decree of O. C. Berks Co., June T., 1913, No. 51, dismissing appeal from decree of Register of Wills, refusing an issue devisavit vel non in Estate of Edgar W. Alexander, deceased. Appeal from decree of register of wills refusing an issue devisavit vel non. Before Bushong, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court affirmed the decree of the register of wills refusing an issue devisavit vel non.
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Appeal No. 38, Jan. T., 1914, by Nettie I. Moyer, from decree of O. C. Berks Co., June T., 1913, No. 51, dismissing appeal from decree of Register of Wills, refusing an issue devisavit vel non in Estate of Edgar W. Alexander, deceased. Appeal from decree of register of wills refusing an issue devisavit vel non. Before Bushong, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court affirmed the decree of the register of wills refusing an issue devisavit vel non. Nettie I. Moyer appealed. Error assigned, among others, was the decree of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Brown,
Edgar W. Alexander died November 12, 1912, leaving personal property appraised at $332,956.87 and real estate worth about $10,000. He left to survive him but one child, a daughter, Nettie, born to him by his first wife, who died May 11, 1897. The daughter subsequently married J. Harry Moyer and became the mother of two children, Josephine and Dorothy. By a will, dated September 4,1912, and a codicil executed a month later, appellant’s father gave the bulk of his estate to his second wife, collateral relatives, step-children and charities. To each of his two…
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