Anderson's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Montgomery county. This was an appeal by Mary W. Anderson, the widow of Dr. James Anderson, deceased, from the decree of the court below, rejecting her claim to dower in the estate of her deceased husband, and distributing his personal estate.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Montgomery county. This was an appeal by Mary W. Anderson, the widow of Dr. James Anderson, deceased, from the decree of the court below, rejecting her claim to dower in the estate of her deceased husband, and distributing his personal estate. Dr. James Anderson died.on the 1st June 1868, and by his will devised as follows: — “ I give and bequeath unto my present wife Mary, during her natural life, the interest of the sum of five thousand dollars, the interest to be paid to her every six months; I also leave, to her, during the same period of time, all of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Read, J.
Dr. James Anderson, of Lower Merion township, Montgomery county, died on the 1st day of June 1858, leaving a will bearing date the 22d of October 1856. The testator had been twice married, and left a widow and five children by her, and by his first wife, four children and three grandchildren, the children of Isaac W. Anderson, deceased, a son by the former marriage. He appointed his sons, James Bush Anderson, by his first wife, and Joseph Wilson Anderson, Andrew Jackson Anderson, and John Fletcher Anderson, by the second wife, his executors.…
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