Legal Opinion

Skeer's Estate

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided April 26, 1915No. 1; Appeal, No. 200PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Appeal, No. 200, Jan. T., 1914, by Ellen B. Skeer, administratrix of the Estate of Charles O. Skeer, from decree of O. C. Carbon County, dismissing exceptions to supplemental report of auditor in Estate of Charles O. Skeer, deceased. Exceptions to supplemental report of Jacob C. Loose, Esq., auditor. Before Strauss, J., specially presiding. The facts appear in Skeer’s Est., 236 Pa. 404, and in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court dismissed the exceptions.

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Appeal, No. 200, Jan. T., 1914, by Ellen B. Skeer, administratrix of the Estate of Charles O. Skeer, from decree of O. C. Carbon County, dismissing exceptions to supplemental report of auditor in Estate of Charles O. Skeer, deceased. Exceptions to supplemental report of Jacob C. Loose, Esq., auditor. Before Strauss, J., specially presiding. The facts appear in Skeer’s Est., 236 Pa. 404, and in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court dismissed the exceptions. Ellen B. Skeer, administratrix, appealed. Errors assigned were in dismissing the exceptions.

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Frazer,

Charles O. Skeer died March 13,1892, intestate, léav-. ing to survive him a widow, Ellen B. Skeer, and a num*290ber of collateral heirs, all of whom are parties to these proceedings. Letters of administration were granted to the. widow, who filed an inventory and appraisement showing personal property amounting to over $850,000, including the interest of the decedent in the copartnership of Linderman & Skeer, which was appraised at $57,211.96. The interest of decedent in the partnership was nine-twenty-eighths of the whole. The firm had been engaged in operating…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Skeer's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1912
  2. Commonwealth v. MessingerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1912

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Slagle's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1939
  2. Commonwealth v. GregorySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1918
  3. Skeer's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1916
  4. Commonwealth v. Hughes, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Tioga County1935

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