Walter's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was an appeal from a decree of the Orphans’ Court for the County of Philadelphia, made in the matter of the estate of George A. Walters, deceased, under the' following circumstances.
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This was an appeal from a decree of the Orphans’ Court for the County of Philadelphia, made in the matter of the estate of George A. Walters, deceased, under the' following circumstances. George A. Wálters died intestate, on or about the 9th day of August, 1809, leaving issue four children, to .wit: George A., Hannah, (intermarried with Amos Truman,) Mary, who intermarried with Charles Wood, deceased, and Elizabeth, who intermarried with Shean, and who is deceased, leaving two children, to wit, John and Elizabeth Shean. On the 18th day of April, 1835, application was made to the Orphans’,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Rogers, J.
In Yohe v. Barnitz, (1 Binn. 365,) it was for the first time decided, that the share of a wife, which is directed to be paid in money,, after partition of the real estate. of her intestate parent, does not remain in the nature of real estate, but is converted into personal estate, and is altogether in the power of the husband, who may dispose of it in any way he may think proper. ' Chief Justice Tilghman regrets that the courts of this state are not vested with the power exercised by the Court of Chancery in England, of insisting on some…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Yohe v. BarnetSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1808
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