Legal Opinion

Leven Good's Estate

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided February 26, 1909No. Appeal, No. 26PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Appeal, No. 26, Oct. T., 1908, by' Frank L. Mauger, from decree of O. C. Berks Co., Oct. T., 1907, No. 37, enforcing a charge on land in estate of Philip Levengood, deceased. Petition to charge a certain fund on land and decree its payment thereout. Before Bland, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Error assigned was decree in favor of the petition.

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Porter, J.,

The court below entered a decree that the land of the appellant “is subject to a charge or lien amounting to $723.17, its proportionate part of the principal of the dower of Rachel Geyer (late Levengood), deceased;” and that said amount, with interest from April 8, 1907, the date of the death of said Rachel Geyer, be paid by said Frank L. Mauger to Anna Maranda Knapp, a daughter of Philip Levengood, deceased, and that upon failure to so pay the payment should be enforced by a writ of levari facias against the land of the appellant. The respondent appeals.

Philip Levengood…

2Cases cited27 opinions

  1. Maul v. RiderSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1868
  2. Estate of VanceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1891
  3. Estate of CunninghamSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1890
  4. Estate of FergusonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1890
  5. Coover's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1873

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Kates's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1925
  2. Smith v. DanielsonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1911
  3. Clark EstatePennsylvania Orphans' Court, Allegheny County · 1956
  4. Higinbotham's EstateSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1912

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