Kaier's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 227, Jan. T., 1919, by Emily Amelia Kaier Schreyer and Crescentia Kaier Kirby, from decree of O. C. of Schuylkill Co., refusing to vacate letters testamentary granted to Charles F. Kaier, and to remove him as Executor of-the Estate of Charles D. Kaier, deceased. Petition for removal of an executor. Before Wilhelm, J. The court dismissed the petition. Petitioners appealed.
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Appeal, No. 227, Jan. T., 1919, by Emily Amelia Kaier Schreyer and Crescentia Kaier Kirby, from decree of O. C. of Schuylkill Co., refusing to vacate letters testamentary granted to Charles F. Kaier, and to remove him as Executor of-the Estate of Charles D. Kaier, deceased. Petition for removal of an executor. Before Wilhelm, J. The court dismissed the petition. Petitioners appealed. Errors assigned, among others, were (2-5, 9, 10) findings and conclusions of the court, (6-8) rulings on evidence, and (10,11) the decree of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Stewart,
The appeal is from a decree discharging a rule to vacate letters testamentary granted Charles F. Kaier, *297and remove Mm as executor of the will of Charles D. Kaier, deceased.
Much that is here the subject of dispute results from the fact that by the will of Charles D. Kaier, a man of large and varied interests, he devised his entire estate to his wife Margaret C. Kaier for the term of her natural life, or so long as she remained his widow, with this remainder over, “at and upon her decease or remarriage I give, devise and bequeath to same or so much as may then…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Parsons's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1876
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