Estate of Vance
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEALS BY THE CONTRIBUTORS TO THE PENNSYLVANIA HOS PITAL, JAMES V. QUINTON, AND THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPI TAL, EROM THE ORPHANS’ COURT OE PHILADELPHIA COUNTY July Term 1889, Nos. 202, 232 January Term 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, numbers and terms not shown.
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APPEALS BY THE CONTRIBUTORS TO THE PENNSYLVANIA HOS PITAL, JAMES V. QUINTON, AND THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPI TAL, EROM THE ORPHANS’ COURT OE PHILADELPHIA COUNTY July Term 1889, Nos. 202, 232 January Term 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, numbers and terms not shown. James M. Vance died July 22, 1887, leaving a widow, S. Almira Vance, and collateral relatives, and leaving an estate amounting to more than $400,000. By his will he devised the income of his real estate, amounting to about $4,000 per year, to his wife for life; and, after charging his personal estate with annuities, aggregating $1,600, to…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Mitchell:
These appeals are ruled by Ferguson’s Est., 188 Pa. 208, decided since the adjudication in the court below. That case was the necessary sequence of Coover’s App., 74 Pa. 143; Gallagher’s Est., 76 Pa. 296; and Heineman’s App., 92 Pa. 95, and these appeals might be rested on its authority. But out of deference to the opinion of the learned court below and the argument of counsel, we have reviewed the ground there taken, as if the question were still open.
The widow’s statutory rights in lier husband’s estate are paramount to his will, and he is presumed to know that…
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