Elizabeth Walton's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 7, July T., 1895, by Hestou Walton, from decree of O. C. Bucks Co., dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report on the account of T. Howard Atkinson, trustee. Exceptions to report of auditor. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Errors assigned were in overruling exceptions to auditor’s report.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Me. Justice Dean,
Elizabeth L. Walton, on October 1, 1889, died, leaving to survive her, a husband, Heston Walton, and a minor daughter, Hetty Ann Walton. She left a considerable estate, part of it two valuable farms. Domestic difficulties had caused a separation from her husband some years before, and at her death she and her daughter lived apart from the husband and father. In her will, she gave the husband nothing, and left the whole estate to a trustee to be appointed by the orphans’ court of Bucks county, in trust for her daughter Hetty; her husband did not concur in this…
2Cited by1 opinion
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