Fox's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 223, Jan. T., 1911, by Horace Yardlev, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., April T., 1911, No. 160, sustaining exceptions to adjudication in Estate of Henry C. Fox, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was decree sustaining exceptions to adjudication.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Mestbezat,
*107There is but one question in this case, and it is a narrow one and of easy solution.
Henry C. Fox died on March 1, 1910, leaving to survive him four children and the children of a deceased son. He left a large estate, the balance for distribution shown by the account being more than $800,000, the residue of which he divided into five equal parts, three of which he gave to his three sons, one to the children of his deceased son, and the remaining part to a trustee for his daughter. The fifth clause of the will is as follows: “I give and bequeath to each of the…
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