Langerwisch's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, Nos. 6 and 241, Jan. T., 1920, by Sarah Langerwisch, from decrees of O. C. Monroe Co., setting aside report of appraisers and vacating their appointment and dismissing exceptions to adjudication in estate of Diedrich Langerwisch, deceased. Petition of Sarah Langerwisch, widow of Diedrich Langerwisch, to appoint two appraisers to appraise, and set apart for her, property of the decedent to the value of $5,000, to which she claimed to be entitled.
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Appeal, Nos. 6 and 241, Jan. T., 1920, by Sarah Langerwisch, from decrees of O. C. Monroe Co., setting aside report of appraisers and vacating their appointment and dismissing exceptions to adjudication in estate of Diedrich Langerwisch, deceased. Petition of Sarah Langerwisch, widow of Diedrich Langerwisch, to appoint two appraisers to appraise, and set apart for her, property of the decedent to the value of $5,000, to which she claimed to be entitled. Shull, P. J. The record showed decedent died testate leaving no issue. The widow elected to. take against the will. The case turned on the…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
Diedrich Langerwisch died testate February 3, 1919, leaving a widow, but no issue. She elected to take against bis will and claimed such interest in bis real and personal estate as would have passed to ber if be bad died intestate. Her claim, disallowed by tbe court below, was for $5,000 out of ber husband’s real or personal estate, in addition to tbe exemption allowed ber by law. It was disallowed, because section 2, clause (a), of tbe Act of June 7,1917, P. L. 429, as amended by tbe Act of July 11, 1917, P. L. 755, provides tbe “clause as to said five thousand dollars in value…
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