White's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 290 and 307, Jan. T., 1893, by William R. White and J. Henry Hentz, executors of William R. White, deceased, and by William W. Buckley, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., Oct. T., 1891, No. 230, distributing estate of William R. White, deceased. Before Sterrett, C. J., Green, McCollum, Mitchell and Dean, JJ., on argument. Petition for citation.
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Appeals, Nos. 290 and 307, Jan. T., 1893, by William R. White and J. Henry Hentz, executors of William R. White, deceased, and by William W. Buckley, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., Oct. T., 1891, No. 230, distributing estate of William R. White, deceased. Before Sterrett, C. J., Green, McCollum, Mitchell and Dean, JJ., on argument. Petition for citation. From the petition, answers and proofs, it appeared that William R. White died in Philadelphia, Oct. 23, 1868. He left surviving four children, William R. White, M. Clementine Borie, the wife of Henry P. Borie ; Henry C. White and C. Brooke…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Williams,
There are two principal questions involved in this case. The first relates to the conclusiveness of the proceeding in the orphans’ court under which distribution was made by the executors of William R. White, deceased, in 1870. The-second involves the construction of the codicil to the will of the. testator. The report of the auditor shows that the testator died about the first of October, 1868,- disposing by his will of an estate amounting to more than half a million of dollars. Four of his children survived him. The fifth, a daughter, was dead; but her…
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