Linnard's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia county: Of January Term 1880, No. 153. Appeal of Eugene Linnard, trustee of Cornelia Purnell, from the decree of the court in the distribution of the estate of Katherine M. Linnard, deceased.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia county: Of January Term 1880, No. 153. Appeal of Eugene Linnard, trustee of Cornelia Purnell, from the decree of the court in the distribution of the estate of Katherine M. Linnard, deceased. Miss Katherine M. Linnard died September 22d 1878, leaving a will dated December 5th 1877, with sundry codicils thereto, which was duly admitted to probate, and letters testamentary issued thereon September 26th 1878. By said will she bequeathed in pecuniary legacies nearly $19.000, while the balance for distribution in the hands of the accountant only…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
The will of Miss Linnard, consisting of the original paper, dated December 5th 1877, executed in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, and four codicils signed by her but not dated or witnessed, was admitted to probate September 26th 1878, four days after her decease. The original paper was re-signed by the testatrix imme*316diately below and in connection with the attestation clause over date of December 13th 1877. Sometime thereafter she made several changes in her will by drawing a pen transversely across the words creating some of the legacies, and in one instance she substituted a sum…
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