Stineman's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Cambria county,. This was an appeal by Jacob Stineman, Jr., and T. L. Heyer, executors of Jacob Stineman, deceased, from the decree of the court below making distribution of the estate in their hands.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Cambria county,. This was an appeal by Jacob Stineman, Jr., and T. L. Heyer, executors of Jacob Stineman, deceased, from the decree of the court below making distribution of the estate in their hands. Jacob Stineman, by his last will and testament, proved on the 12th October 1853, devised as follows: “ I direct that all my real and personal estate, of which I shall die seised or possessed, shall be sold by my executors for its reasonable value, for current money, or such credit, and the amount thereof secured in'such manner, as is usual in like cases, to…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Lowrie, C. J.
The appellants, as executors, have no right to object to this distribution; but as legatees they have. We have therefore considered their complaint, and find it to be unfounded.
The testator gives to his widow so much of his estate “ as she is justly entitled to by the laws of this Commonwealth, and no more.” This, of course, includes the $300 allowed to widows in all cases. -It is urged, however, that she ought to have claimed this in accordance with forms of. the Acts of 14th April 1851, and 9th April 1849. But we do not think so. To…
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