Estate of Rowan
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY JOSEPHINE E. ROWAN FROM THE ORPHANS’ COURT OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. No. 65 January Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, number and term not given. The account of John J. Ridgway, executor of the will of W. Elwood Rowan, deceased, having been called for audit before Ferguson, J., if was found as follows: The testator died on October 20, 1887, leaving a widow, Josephine E. Rowan, but no issue.
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APPEAL BY JOSEPHINE E. ROWAN FROM THE ORPHANS’ COURT OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. No. 65 January Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, number and term not given. The account of John J. Ridgway, executor of the will of W. Elwood Rowan, deceased, having been called for audit before Ferguson, J., if was found as follows: The testator died on October 20, 1887, leaving a widow, Josephine E. Rowan, but no issue. He left an adopted daughter, however, Louisa F., adopted under a decree of the Court of Common Pleas No. 3, entered February 15,1873, under § 7, act of May 4, 1855, P. L. 431. His marriage with the…
1Per curiam
The question here is whether, as .between the widow and the adopted child of the decedent, said child has all the rights of an actual child in the distribution of his estate. It was distinctly ruled in Johnson’s App., 88 Pa. 346, that a child adopted under the act of 1855 becomes a child and heir of the person adopting such child, so far as he or she can be made such by legislative enactment. In the case in hand, W. Elwood Row an, the decedent, adopted the appellee before he was married to the appellant. The latter has no reason to complain that *301her rights have been interfered with by the act…
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