Weller's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 209, Oct. T., 1914, by Charles C.' Weller, from decree of O. C. Lawrence Co., March T., 1913, No. 30, ordering payment of a legacy charged upon land in Estate of Augustus Weller, deceased. Petition to compel the payment of a legacy by the devisee of land, charged with the payment thereof. Before Porter, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court awarded the relief prayed for. Charles C. Weller appealed.
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Appeal, No. 209, Oct. T., 1914, by Charles C.' Weller, from decree of O. C. Lawrence Co., March T., 1913, No. 30, ordering payment of a legacy charged upon land in Estate of Augustus Weller, deceased. Petition to compel the payment of a legacy by the devisee of land, charged with the payment thereof. Before Porter, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court awarded the relief prayed for. Charles C. Weller appealed. Error assigned was the decree of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Me. Justice Moschzisker,
This was a proceeding under the 59th Section of the Act of February 24, 1834, P. L. 73, by certain legatees named in the will of Augustus Weller, deceased, to force the payment of a charge upon land devised by the testator to his son, Charles C. Weller. The Orphans’ Court granted the relief prayed for, and the devisee of the land has appealed.
Augustus Weller died August 6, 1908, leaving a will dated in January, 1907, by which he devised to his son, Charles, a farm of about fifty-two acr.es, on condition that he pay to the testator’s executor the sum of two…
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