Legal Opinion

Croxton's Estate

Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County

Decided January 8, 1926No. 2052Published

1Opinion of the Court

Van Dusen, J.,

A Pennsylvania testatrix owned real estate in Ohio, which she directed her executor to sell, and she then distributed it as money. The executor took out ancillary letters in Ohio and sold the real estate. He now has the proceeds in his hands as executor at the domicile, to be ultimately accounted for to our courts and to be distributed by them. We attach no importance to the fact that the proceeds are also on deposit in a Pennsylvania bank. If the cases of Miller v. Com., 111 Pa. 321; Williamson’s Estate, 153 Pa. 508; and Vanuxem’s Estate, 212 Pa. 315, be still the law,…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Frick's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1923
  2. Williamson's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1893
  3. Miller v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1886
  4. Vanuxem's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1905
  5. Hogg's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1924

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