Appeal of Keiper
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
FROM THE DECREE OF THE ORPHANS’ COURT FOR PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. No. 25 January Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 440 January Term 1888, O. C. On April 4, 1888, the account of Daniel Young et al., executors of the will of John Keiper, deceased, was called for audit, and on the hearing a contention arose between M. R. Keiper, the residuary legatee, and Salems Reform Church, of Elizabethville, Dauphin Co., upon the following facts : John Keiper, the testator, died July 4,…
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FROM THE DECREE OF THE ORPHANS’ COURT FOR PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. No. 25 January Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 440 January Term 1888, O. C. On April 4, 1888, the account of Daniel Young et al., executors of the will of John Keiper, deceased, was called for audit, and on the hearing a contention arose between M. R. Keiper, the residuary legatee, and Salems Reform Church, of Elizabethville, Dauphin Co., upon the following facts : John Keiper, the testator, died July 4, 1887, unmarried and without issue, having made a last will dated July 23, 1878, duly admitted to probate, which contained…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Me. Chief Justice Paxson :
This record involves the single question of the ademption of a legacy. John Keiper, deceased, by his will, made the following bequest: “ I give and bequeath to James Miller, Esq., of Elizabethville, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, the sum of one thousand dollars in trust, safely to invest the same- at interest; this amount, and what interest may accrue thereon, to be used only toward the erection of a Reformed Church in the United States at Elizabethville, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, and shall not be paid by the said James Miller, Esq., until he is perfectly…
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