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Browarsky's Estate

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided January 3, 1916No. Appeal, No. 216PublishedCited by 10 opinions

Appeal, No. 216, Oct. T., 1915, by Benjamin Pearlman, from decree of O. O. Allegheny Co., May T., 1914, No. 92, dismissing exceptions to decree of distribution in Estate of Hyman Browarshy. Exceptions to decree of distribution of a decedent’s estate. Before Trimble, J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court surcharged the administrator, Benjamin Pearlman, in the sum of $5,448.26. The administrator appealed.

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Appeal, No. 216, Oct. T., 1915, by Benjamin Pearlman, from decree of O. O. Allegheny Co., May T., 1914, No. 92, dismissing exceptions to decree of distribution in Estate of Hyman Browarshy. Exceptions to decree of distribution of a decedent’s estate. Before Trimble, J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court surcharged the administrator, Benjamin Pearlman, in the sum of $5,448.26. The administrator appealed. Error assigned, among others, was the decree of the court.

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Potter,

This is an appeal by the administrator of the estate of Hyman Browarsky, deceased, from a decree of the Orphans’ Court of Allegheny County, in which he was surcharged in the sum of $5,448.26, that being the amount of certain rents, issues and profits which it was held was due to Hyman Browarsky in his lifetime, as tenant by the curtesy of his-wife’s estate, and which in the opinion of the court below, should have been collected by the administrator. It appears from the record that on March 19, 1911, Yetta Browarsky, wife of the said Hyman Browarsky died seized of…

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