Estate of Orne
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 200, Jan. T., 1898, by Emily V. Hamilton, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., Oct. T., 1894, No. 85, dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report. Exceptions to auditor’s report. The facts, as well as the findings of the auditor, John B. Colahan, Jr., Esq., and the exceptions thereto, sufficiently appear from the opinion of the Supreme Court. The exceptions to the auditor’s report were dismissed by the court in an opinion by Ashman, J. See 7 Dist.
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Appeal, No. 200, Jan. T., 1898, by Emily V. Hamilton, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., Oct. T., 1894, No. 85, dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report. Exceptions to auditor’s report. The facts, as well as the findings of the auditor, John B. Colahan, Jr., Esq., and the exceptions thereto, sufficiently appear from the opinion of the Supreme Court. The exceptions to the auditor’s report were dismissed by the court in an opinion by Ashman, J. See 7 Dist. Rep. 337. Errors assigned were in dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Dean,
James D. Orne, of Philadelphia, died on July 31,1894, leaving a will, of which he appointed Dwight Pratt, his nephew, of Springfield, Massachusetts, and Henry S. Lee, executors. Lee having declined to accept, Pratt acted as sole executor. The testator left to his widow Emily such share of his estate as would pass to her under the intestate laws, and the remainder to his three children. For some years before his death he had been a manufacturer of hosiery in a small way, and the stock and capital in this business made up the larger part of his estate. One James H.…
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