Hancock's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia county: Of January Term, 1886, No. 115. Appeal of Thomas E. Hancock from the final decree of said court in the matter of the distribution of the estate of Thomas S. Ellis, deceased, Alfred S. Ellis, and the Fidelity Insurance Trust and Safe Deposit Company, executors.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia county: Of January Term, 1886, No. 115. Appeal of Thomas E. Hancock from the final decree of said court in the matter of the distribution of the estate of Thomas S. Ellis, deceased, Alfred S. Ellis, and the Fidelity Insurance Trust and Safe Deposit Company, executors. The facts of the case appear in the following opinion of Penrose, J.: The decedent, who was a member of the firm of M. Thomas & Sons, auctioneers, died, as represented to the court, May 25th, 1884, without issue, leaving a widow, Margaret H. Ellis; a brother, George D. Ellis: a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Green
The testator had a fashion of making short, isolated be-' quests of portions of his estate to legatees named, on loose slips of paper, saying nothing whatever about the residue of his estate.
Thus there was found among his effects a sealed envelope upon which was written — “ These notes to be given to my brother G. D. Ellis and no claim made on him — in other' words, I present thém to him.
“(Signed). Thos. S. Ellis.
“ February 7th, 1880.”
Three judgment notes were enclosed in the envelope, and it was agreed by all parties interested that the paper should be treated as a testamentary gift of the…
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