Hazard's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 84, Jan. T., 1916, by John L. Cox, Ersldne H. Cox, Edward V. Cox, Martha Cox Bryant, Fanny Cox Clark, Julia Cox Taber, Edith Cox Page, Alice Cox Wood, Harry W, Hazard and Ethel Hazard from decree of O. C. Philadelphia Co., April T., 1884, No. 69, declaring rights of a certain party beneficiary under a will in Estate of Erskine Hazard, deceased. Petition for declaration of rights of parties under a will.
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Appeal, No. 84, Jan. T., 1916, by John L. Cox, Ersldne H. Cox, Edward V. Cox, Martha Cox Bryant, Fanny Cox Clark, Julia Cox Taber, Edith Cox Page, Alice Cox Wood, Harry W, Hazard and Ethel Hazard from decree of O. C. Philadelphia Co., April T., 1884, No. 69, declaring rights of a certain party beneficiary under a will in Estate of Erskine Hazard, deceased. Petition for declaration of rights of parties under a will. Before Lamorelle, J. Erskine Hazard died February 26,1865, leaving a will by which, inter alia, he directed the division of his estate among his children at the death of his wife,…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
The court below was without jurisdiction to make the decree appealed from: Willard’s App., 65 Pa. 265. On that case the court below undertook to do just what was done here, and, in reversing its decree, we said, through Mr. Justice Sharswood: “It would, perhaps, be a very convenient practice immediately upon the death of a decedent to have all possible questions which might arise upon the construction of his will, and in the settlement and distribution of his estate, settled by a decree of the Orphans’ Court in limine, and by way of anticipation, and by an appeal to the Supreme…
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