Estate of Steen
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 103, Jau. T., 1896, by tlie city of Philadelphia, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., dismissing exceptions to adjudication. Exceptions to adjudication. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Errors assigned were in overruling exceptions to adjudication.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
Robert Steen died in 1866 the owner of considerable real estate in the city of Philadelphia. He left a will by which he devised a large part of it to his executors in trust during the life of his widow. She died in 1870, and the trust, so far as concerned her, was at an end. Among the real estate devised to the executors was a large lot of ground on Spring Garden street, yielding but a small net income, and the executors thought it to the best interests of the estate to sell it; and they did, May 5, 1893, sell it at private sale to Samuel H. Hicks for the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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