Lesieur's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 91, Jan. T., 1902, by Charles Joly, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., Oct. T., 1900, No. 510, dismissing exceptions to adjudication in estate of Louis Lesieur, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. Before Hanna, P. J., the auditing judge, an attachment sur judgment was presented as a claim against a debt alleged to be due by testator to the executor, John C. Springman, the accountant. The claim was objected to by counsel for the executors.
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Appeal, No. 91, Jan. T., 1902, by Charles Joly, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., Oct. T., 1900, No. 510, dismissing exceptions to adjudication in estate of Louis Lesieur, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. Before Hanna, P. J., the auditing judge, an attachment sur judgment was presented as a claim against a debt alleged to be due by testator to the executor, John C. Springman, the accountant. The claim was objected to by counsel for the executors. As to this claim Hanna, P. J., found as follows: Air. Brightly offered in evidence a copy of an attachment sur judgment wherein Charles Joly is…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Potter,
By his last will and testament, A. N. Yerrier devised to his niece, Caroline L. Springman, the income from certain real estate for the term of her natural life. And in case of her death after arriving at the age of twenty-one years, the principal, or estate from which the income was derived, was to goto the nominee of her will, or in default of a will, to her “ legal representatives.”
She did die intestate, after attaining the age of twenty-one years, leaving to survive her a husband and two children. The question here for determination, is whether the husband is…
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