Waddell's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 20, Jan. T., 1900, by W. L. Watson et al., executors, from decree of O. C. Luzerne County, No. 398 of 1894, sustaining exceptions to account, in estate of Thomas Waddell, deceased. Exceptions to account. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court sustained exceptions to the account, and surcharged the executors with 136,662.25. Error assigned was the decree of the court.
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Appeal, No. 20, Jan. T., 1900, by W. L. Watson et al., executors, from decree of O. C. Luzerne County, No. 398 of 1894, sustaining exceptions to account, in estate of Thomas Waddell, deceased. Exceptions to account. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court sustained exceptions to the account, and surcharged the executors with 136,662.25. Error assigned was the decree of the court. In pursuance of the testator’s explicit directions, the executors operated the colliery, pending sale thereof, in a workmanlike manner, and did with the property, in all respects,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
Thomas Waddell, a coal operator of Luzerne county, died on October 23, 1894, leaving a will with three codicils, the .last one dated only nineteen days before his death. He was conducting several coal plants just before he died, among others, a newly opened mine at Winton. In this last he had sunk a slope to the coal, and also a shaft, for what under the statute is known as the second opening, but had made no connection between them; the slope had reached the coal, but at ■the bottom had struck a fault, which barred access to the regular and valuable bed beyond it.…
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