Welles's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, No. 301 and 349, Jan. T., 1894, by Security Company, admr. of Hubert G. Welles, deceased, and Caroline H. Steinman, from decree of O. C. Berks Co., Dec. T., 1893, distributing estate of Hubert G. Welles, deceased. Exception to adjudication of administrator’s account.
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Appeals, No. 301 and 349, Jan. T., 1894, by Security Company, admr. of Hubert G. Welles, deceased, and Caroline H. Steinman, from decree of O. C. Berks Co., Dec. T., 1893, distributing estate of Hubert G. Welles, deceased. Exception to adjudication of administrator’s account. Prom the report of the auditing judge, Bland, P. J., it appeared that Hubert G. Welles, a minor, domiciled in Connecticut, died on March 24, 1892, possessed of a fund in the hands of a Pennsylvania guardian. Letters of administration upon the estate were granted by the probate court of Hartford, Connecticut, to the…
1Opinion of the Court
SECURITY COMPANY’S APPEAL.
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Sterrett,
All the material facts of this case sufficiently appear in the record of the court below, and hence special reference to them is unnecessary.
The question whether the fund for distribution is to be regarded as real or personal estate is answered by application of the principle of Wentz’s Appeal, 126 Pa. 541, and cases there cited. It was in fact and in law personalty when the owner died, and is distributable as such.
While the general rúle requires that the surplusage of personal estate shall be remitted from the ancillary to the…
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- Appeal of WentzSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1889
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