In re Reinstein's Estate
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 83, April T., 1918, by M. M. Fisher, from decree of O. C. Jefferson County, December T., 1887, No. 15, setting aside the widow’s appraisement in the estate of Jacob Reinstein, deceased. Petition for rule to show cause why appraisement and decree of court allotting a tract of land to Hannah Rein-stein, widow of Jacob Reinstein, should not be opened, vacated and set aside.
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Appeal, No. 83, April T., 1918, by M. M. Fisher, from decree of O. C. Jefferson County, December T., 1887, No. 15, setting aside the widow’s appraisement in the estate of Jacob Reinstein, deceased. Petition for rule to show cause why appraisement and decree of court allotting a tract of land to Hannah Rein-stein, widow of Jacob Reinstein, should not be opened, vacated and set aside. The court, after hearing, made the rule absolute and entered a decree setting aside the appraisement and decree of May 9,1892, which had allotted the tract of land in question to the said Hannah Rein-stein. The…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Porter, J.,
Jacob Reinstein during his lifetime entered into written articles of agreement with Hiram Carrier for the purchase of a tract of land containing one hundred acres, in Pine Creek Township, Jefferson County, entered into possession of said land in accordance with the provisions of the agreement, and paid all of the stipulated purchase money except sixty-four ($64) dollars. He was residing upon the tract in August, 1864, when he died, leaving to survive him a widow, Hannah Reinstein, and four children. The widow continued to reside upon the land and there reared her…
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