Legal Opinion

Glasgow's Estate

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided January 19, 1914No. 1; Appeal, No. 94PublishedCited by 13 opinions

Appeal, No. 94, Oct. T., 1913, by Scott Thompson, from decree of O. C. Allegheny Co., May T., 1912, No. 220, sustaining exceptions to adjudication in Estate of John B. Glasgow, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication.

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Appeal, No. 94, Oct. T., 1913, by Scott Thompson, from decree of O. C. Allegheny Co., May T., 1912, No. 220, sustaining exceptions to adjudication in Estate of John B. Glasgow, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. At the audit of the account Over, J., filed the following opinion: John B. Glasgow died testate February 18, 1911, and in his will, after giving small pecuniary legacies to some of his kin, he provided as follows: “Fifth: The balance of my estate I give and bequeath to my executor hereinafter named in trust to pay whomsoever takes care of me and nurses me, and looks after my…

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Mr. Justice Moschzisker,

The testator left an estate, appraised at $5,489.54. The auditing judge, after allowing debts, expenses and pecuniary legacies to relatives awarded the net. balance, amounting to $4,199.22, to the appellants; but, on the hearing of exceptions to the adjudication, the Orphans’ Court declared the decedent intestate as to his residuary estate and distributed that fund among his next of kin, a sister and certain nephews and nieces; hence, this appeal.

The material facts in the case are correctly set forth in the opinion of the auditing judge published in…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Peterson's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1913

3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Mayer's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1927
  2. Frisbie's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1920
  3. Gerety EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1946
  4. Umberger EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1952
  5. Moss v. AxfordMichigan Supreme Court · 1929

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