In re Estate of Bryce
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 118, Oct. T., 1899, by John Kevan and Stella K. Bryce, from decree of O. C. Allegheny County, Sept. T., 1898, No. 80, and Nov. T., 1898, No. 52, dismissing exceptions to adjudication. Exceptions to adjudication. John Bryce died August 3, 1888, leaving a widow, Mary Bryce, and four children, viz: Charles K., Robert D., John P. and Tda Bryce.
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Appeal, No. 118, Oct. T., 1899, by John Kevan and Stella K. Bryce, from decree of O. C. Allegheny County, Sept. T., 1898, No. 80, and Nov. T., 1898, No. 52, dismissing exceptions to adjudication. Exceptions to adjudication. John Bryce died August 3, 1888, leaving a widow, Mary Bryce, and four children, viz: Charles K., Robert D., John P. and Tda Bryce. By his will, of which his widow was appointed executrix, he devised item four to Charles K., four lots with the buildings thereon; item five to Robert D., the half of six lots with a house thereon erected; item six to John P., the other half of…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Fell,
The testator devised to his son, John P. Bryce, three lots of land, and directed by his will that a house should be erected on the lots equal in value to a house which he had erected on other lots devised to another son. John P. Bryce had before his father’s death lived with his mother who was executor of her husband’s wilf; and he continued to live with her until his death, which occurred eight years later. The house was not built because he did not want it built. The appellants claimed to have awarded to them from his father’s estate the value of the house in…
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