Porter's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Allegheny county: No. 200, to October and November Term 1874. In the estate of John M. Porter, deceased. The decedent died in December 1865, on or before the 4th of that month,having made a will, dated November 30th 1865, and seised and possessed of a large real and personal estate. He directed a large portion of his land designated to be divided into ten lots and sold by his executors.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Allegheny county: No. 200, to October and November Term 1874. In the estate of John M. Porter, deceased. The decedent died in December 1865, on or before the 4th of that month,having made a will, dated November 30th 1865, and seised and possessed of a large real and personal estate. He directed a large portion of his land designated to be divided into ten lots and sold by his executors. He directed other lands, also designated, to be divided into sixteen lots and sold also; a farm on other lands also to be sold, allowing William 'Irwin the tenant to remain on…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sharswood
The testator, John M. Porter, intended the bulk of his estate to be appropriated to three objects: 1. The purchase of a lot or lots and the erection of a college or university, to be located in or near Tarentum, for which purpose he gave and bequeathed the sum of $50,000. 2. The purchase of useful books for the library, for which $6000 were to be expended. 3. The improvement of the burial lots belonging to him in the Prospect Cemetery, in building a cut stone wall around the lower end of said lots, and in procuring a suitable monument. For this last purpose he directed that from 3 to $5000…
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