Kern's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 88, Jan. T., 1905, by-Antonia Kern, from decree of O. C. Luzerne Co., dismissing appeal from Register of Wills in Estate of Leonard Kern, deceased. Appeal from register of wills. Before Fbeas, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was the decree of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Me. Justice Mestbezat,
Leonard Kern died June 23, 1904, leaving to survive him a widow, Antonia Kern, four children and one grandchild. Letters of administration on his estate were granted by the register to his widow July 6,1904, who gave the bond required *58by law. In December of that year a will of the decedent was discovered among his papers, which Mrs. Kern, the executrix named therein, probated before the register. Subsequently, on December 16, 1904, she presented her petition to the register setting forth that her husband had died testate, that letters of administration on his…
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