Eshbach's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 98 and 116, Jan. T., 1900, by Benjamin B. Eshbacb et al., Exrs., and by Susannah Good, from decree of O. C. Lancaster Go., dismissing and sustaining exceptions to auditor’s report, in the estate of John B. Eshbaeh, deceased. Exceptions to auditor’s report. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. .Errors assigned in No. 98, were in sustaining exceptions to auditor’s report, and in No. 116, in dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mjb. Justice Mestbezat,
These appeals are from the same decree and may be considered together.
*157The papers signed by John B. Eshbach and dated respectively April 14, 1897, and April 1, 1898, did not create an indebtedness, nor were they evidence of a gift of the sums therein named. In each, Eshbach declares that he holds $2,000 of his daughter’s money, that she is to receive interest thereon during her life, and that, at her death, the principal shall be paid to her children. Both papers were written by Eshbach, and at his death were found among his other papers. On the one of earlier…
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