Shaffer's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 97, Jan. T., 1918, by Sarah Alice Hartman and Gideon T. Biehl, Executors and. Testamentary Trustees under the last will and testament of John W. Shaffer, deceased, from decree of O. O. Union Go., Jan. T., 1918, No. 2, refusing citation in Estate of John W. Shaffer, deceased. Petition for citation to show cause why respondent should not be required to accept a devise and assume the dower, debt and interest, or forfeit all claims to the land in question.
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Appeal, No. 97, Jan. T., 1918, by Sarah Alice Hartman and Gideon T. Biehl, Executors and. Testamentary Trustees under the last will and testament of John W. Shaffer, deceased, from decree of O. O. Union Go., Jan. T., 1918, No. 2, refusing citation in Estate of John W. Shaffer, deceased. Petition for citation to show cause why respondent should not be required to accept a devise and assume the dower, debt and interest, or forfeit all claims to the land in question. Before Johnson, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The lower court refused the petition. Sarah Alice…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Simpson,
Testator died leaving both real and personal estate. By his will, he gave all his property in trust for his wife for life, and provided that “after the Death of my wife *17Angeline Shaffer, I will give and bequeath to my Half Brother Charles Grant Shaffer all that Farm and Tennent House, subject to the Widow Dower, along Buffalow Crick, known as the Stoltzfus farm and all the residue I will give and bequeath to Sarah Alice Hartman, Personal and real such as my Home stead along the Milton Road, Timber tract and the two Houses and lots in Lewis-burg, Pa., by her…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Wood v. SchoenSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1907
- Hermann's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1908
- Postlethwaite's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1871
- Thompson's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1911
- Stump v. FindlaySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1828
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3Cited by20 opinions
- Lippincott's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1923
- Yates's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1924
- List's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1925
- Buzby EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1956
- Scott's TrustSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1935
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