Ammon's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Beaver county: No. 152, to October and November Term 1868. The proceedings in this ease were upon the distribution of the estate of Rebecca Campbell, deceased, in the hands of Hugh B. Anderson, administrator d. b. n. c. t. a. The decedent died in October 1862, and, by her will, directed her estate to be divided amongst her six children, Alfred and Charles, two of them, each to receive $100 more than the others.
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Appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Beaver county: No. 152, to October and November Term 1868. The proceedings in this ease were upon the distribution of the estate of Rebecca Campbell, deceased, in the hands of Hugh B. Anderson, administrator d. b. n. c. t. a. The decedent died in October 1862, and, by her will, directed her estate to be divided amongst her six children, Alfred and Charles, two of them, each to receive $100 more than the others. On the 18th of February 1860, C. H. Hays obtained a judgment against Alfred Campbell, on which an attachment execution was issued, Mrs.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, January 3d 1870, by
Read, J. —
In this case the auditor appointed by the Orphans’ Court made a very able report, which we have examined with great care and attention. Alfred Campbell, one of the legatees of Rebecca Campbell the decedent, made a voluntary assignment of his legacy to a trustee for the use of his wife, Elvira Campbell. This instrument was dated 24th June 1863, but was not executed until several months afterwards, and was kept at Campbell’s house, and was never in the possession of the trustee. Campbell was indebted upon a note for $4.75,…
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