Stevens's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 149, Jan. T., 1920, by May Stevens Brantly, from decree of O. C. Blair Co., No. 174% of 1919, dismissing exceptions to report of auditor, in estate of A. A. Stevens, deceased. Exceptions to report of A. H. McCamant, Esq., auditor. Before Baldrige, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court dismissed the exceptions to the auditor’s report. May Stevens Brantly, daughter of testator, appealed. Error assigned was, inter alia, decree of court.
1Opinion of the Court
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Mr. Justice Frazer,
This appeal is from a decree of the orphans’ court dismissing exceptions to the report of an auditor appointed to distribute funds in the hands of a testamentary executor and trustee.
Adie Allen Stevens died January 1, 1917, leaving a will in which he devised to his daughter, May Stevens Brantly, for life, “the net rents, issues and profits” of certain real estate, subject to necessary expenditure for taxes, water rent, insurance and repairs, also the furniture in his homestead property and a money legacy of $10,000 in cash, the latter “to be paid to her by my…
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