Wilson's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia County: Of January Term, 1884, No. 303. Appeal of Ellwood Wilson, Jr., and Emily Y. Wilson, his wife iii right of said wife, from a decree of said court sustaining exceptions filed on behalf of the executrix of Lewis A. Truefitt deceased, to. the adjudication of the account of the Phila. Trust Safe Deposit & Insurance Co. substituted trustees, under the will of Frances Y. Truefitt.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia County: Of January Term, 1884, No. 303. Appeal of Ellwood Wilson, Jr., and Emily Y. Wilson, his wife iii right of said wife, from a decree of said court sustaining exceptions filed on behalf of the executrix of Lewis A. Truefitt deceased, to. the adjudication of the account of the Phila. Trust Safe Deposit & Insurance Co. substituted trustees, under the will of Frances Y. Truefitt. Frances V. Truefitt died, testate, leaving a husband, Lewis A. Truefitt, and an adopted daughter, Emily V. Truefitt, subsequently intermarried with Ellwood Wilson, Jr.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
The single question presented by tins record is, whether the interest upon municipal and other corporation bonds can be apportioned. The Auditing Judge, following a decision of the late Judge King, in Earp’s Will, 1 Parson’s Select Equity Cases., 453; held that they could not be apportioned. Upon exceptions filed the Orphans’ Court reversed the decree of the Auditing Judge and apportioned the income. The bonds about which the contention arose, were bonds of the City of Pitts-burg, -and the mortgage bonds of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company.
The rule at common law was that the…
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