Speidel's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court, of Lancaster county: Of July Term, 1884, No. 57. This was an appeal by Catherine E. Speidel, widow of Lorenz Speidel, deceased, from a decree of the said court discharging a rule to show cause why the executors of the said Lorenz Speidel should not appraise and set apart to the said Catherine Speidel property to the value of three hundred dollars out of the estate of her said husband and pay to her one third of the personal estate of said…
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court, of Lancaster county: Of July Term, 1884, No. 57. This was an appeal by Catherine E. Speidel, widow of Lorenz Speidel, deceased, from a decree of the said court discharging a rule to show cause why the executors of the said Lorenz Speidel should not appraise and set apart to the said Catherine Speidel property to the value of three hundred dollars out of the estate of her said husband and pay to her one third of the personal estate of said decedent absolutely. An answer was filed by the executors, and the cause was referred by consent to J. W. F. Swift, Esq., as…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was filed June 2, 1884.
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The examiner appointed by consent of counsel, to take testimony and report the facts, found that the appellant entered into a contract of separation with her husband in 1868. That the agreement was signed, sealed and executed; that she at that time, and subsequently, received a *20certain portion of his estate in pursuance of said contract; that all mutual claims by virtue of their marital rights against each of their respective estates were then relinquished, and that their separation was actual, immediate and continuous. The court…
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