Phillips' Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 244, Oct. T., 1913, by Albert A. Hill, Mary H. Kyle, Jerome F. Hill, Aurelia L. Eckman, Annie N. Hill, Bella Shidler, Marie Richards, Rebecca A. Barnard, G. H. Shidler, Eli Jami-son, Henry Jamison, Julia Jamison, Isaac Hill, John Shidler, and Alpha H. Frye, from decree of O. C. Washington Go., May T., 1911, No. 85, refusing issue devisavit vel non, in Estate of Elizabeth Phillips, deceased.
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Appeal, No. 244, Oct. T., 1913, by Albert A. Hill, Mary H. Kyle, Jerome F. Hill, Aurelia L. Eckman, Annie N. Hill, Bella Shidler, Marie Richards, Rebecca A. Barnard, G. H. Shidler, Eli Jami-son, Henry Jamison, Julia Jamison, Isaac Hill, John Shidler, and Alpha H. Frye, from decree of O. C. Washington Go., May T., 1911, No. 85, refusing issue devisavit vel non, in Estate of Elizabeth Phillips, deceased. Appeal from decree of. register of wills admitting to probate the will of Elizabeth Phillips, deceased. Petition for an issue devisavit vel non. Before Mc-Ilvaine, P. J. The opinion of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Moschziskek,
This was a petition for an issue devisavit vel non. The estate in question was estimated at from $300,000 to $400,000, about $125,000 of which, comprising the personal property, had been accounted for by the appellee, as executor, and distributed under a decree of the court below before these proceedings were commenced. In refusing the issue, the court found, inter alia, the following facts: That the testatrix, Elizabeth Phillips, was a widow without children and had no relatives nearer than first cousins; that she made and executed her will on April 12,…
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