Pickens's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 26, July T., 1894, by Joseph Obenstein, from decree of O. C. Lancaster Co., dismissing exceptions to report of auditor. Exceptions to adjudication of administrators’ account. From the evidence taken before the auditor, J. W. Denlinger, Esq., it appeared that decedent, who died in 1882, was the son of Henry Pickens and Susan Pickens, whose maiden name was Brockey.
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Appeal, No. 26, July T., 1894, by Joseph Obenstein, from decree of O. C. Lancaster Co., dismissing exceptions to report of auditor. Exceptions to adjudication of administrators’ account. From the evidence taken before the auditor, J. W. Denlinger, Esq., it appeared that decedent, who died in 1882, was the son of Henry Pickens and Susan Pickens, whose maiden name was Brockey. Susan Pickens, previous to her marriag'e to Henry Pickens, had lived with one John Obenstein, by whom she had two sons; the first one died in his infancy, and the second son, named Benjamin Obenstein, was married, and had…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Fell,
The contest in this case before the auditor was between those claiming the personal estate of Samuel Pickens as descendants' of first cousins, and those claiming as children of Benjamin Obenstein, who it was alleged was a half-brother of the decedent. It was admitted that Benjamin Obenstein and Samuel Pickens were children of the same mother, that the father of the former was John Obenstein and of the latter Henry Pickens. The marriage of their mother to Henry Pickens was amply established by proof of cohabitation and reputation, and the question was whether she had…
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