Storey's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Orphans’ Court of Butler county: Of October and November Term 1875, Nos. 216 and 253. These were the appeals of Ada Y. Storey and Anna L. Adams, and Julia E. J. Boyd, from the decree of the Orphans’ Court, making distribution of the estate of Oliver David, deceased. Oliver David died intestate at Butler, Pennsylvania, on the 5th day of November 1871, at the advanced age of eighty-three years.
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Certiorari to the Orphans’ Court of Butler county: Of October and November Term 1875, Nos. 216 and 253. These were the appeals of Ada Y. Storey and Anna L. Adams, and Julia E. J. Boyd, from the decree of the Orphans’ Court, making distribution of the estate of Oliver David, deceased. Oliver David died intestate at Butler, Pennsylvania, on the 5th day of November 1871, at the advanced age of eighty-three years. His estate, valued at about $90,000, consisted entirely of government bonds and other interest-bearing securities, with the exception of a small farm in Ohio of inconsiderable value. A…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodward
Storey’s Appeal.
On the 4th of March 1869, Oliver David held íavo judgments against W. 0. Adams, the father of the appellants, amounting to about $7000. On that day a deed for 159 acres and 115 perches of land Avas executed by Mr. Adams to the appellants, who were grandchildren of Mr. David, and thereupon the judgments were satisfied. A provision for his granddaughters Avas thus made by the grandfather by the conveyance of real estate to them for which he paid. This Avas, primd facie, an advancement under the 16th section of the Act of the 8th of April 1833. It Avas so treated by the auditor…
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