Legal Opinion

Keen's Estate

Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County

Decided January 21, 1931No. 196Published

1Opinion of the Court

Van Dusen, J.,

1. We have read the opinion of the Supreme Court [293 Pa. 267] carefully with the exceptants’ argument in mind, and are of the opinion that the case was sent back to this court only for reconsideration of the distribution ordered. It is not to be supposed that the Supreme Court intended that we should review the whole case again without any guide, because of error found in one part of it. For this reason we cannot pass on the merits of any exceptions, except so far as the error in distribution affects them.

2. One set of exceptions is to the refusal to disallow commissions to the…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Price's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1876
  2. Freas's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1911
  3. Keen's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1928
  4. Carr's EstateSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1904

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