Detweiler's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Bucles county. This was an appeal by George Eetweiler, John Groff, Noah Groff, John L. Shellenberger, and Abraham Moyer, from the decree of the Orphans’ Court on the petition of Hannah Stout, widow of Isaac Stout, deceased, praying for a decree requiring the appellants (who were owners of the real estate late of her deceased husband) to pay to her the sum of $118.79, being the balance of the $300 due to her under the Act of April 14th 1851.…
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Bucles county. This was an appeal by George Eetweiler, John Groff, Noah Groff, John L. Shellenberger, and Abraham Moyer, from the decree of the Orphans’ Court on the petition of Hannah Stout, widow of Isaac Stout, deceased, praying for a decree requiring the appellants (who were owners of the real estate late of her deceased husband) to pay to her the sum of $118.79, being the balance of the $300 due to her under the Act of April 14th 1851. The case was this:— Hannah Stout, the widow and one of the administrators of Isaac Stout, deceased, applied to her…
1Opinion of the Court
Tbe opinion of tbe court was delivered, by
Strong, J.
The petitioner in the court below was the widow of Isaac Stout. Under the Act of April 14th 1851, she had claimed to retain of the estate of her deceased husband property to the value of $300, and on the 22d of April 1859, appraisers appointed by the administrator had set apart to her, personal property valued at $181.20-J. The remainder of the $300 sho elected to take in real estate. ’ The appraisers, having been unable to divide the lands of the decedent so .as to set apart to her so much thereof as amounted in value to $118.79, without…
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