Paxson's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 224, Jan. T., 1907, by Commonwealth ex rel. The National Farm School and L. Webster Fox, M. D., William S. Erdman, M. D., and T. Howard Atkinson, trustees of the “ Buckingham Agricultural Institute ” ■or Home for Boys, from decree of O. C., Phila. Co., April T., 1906, No. 11, dismissing exceptions to adjudication in Estate of Edward M. Paxson, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication.
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Appeal, No. 224, Jan. T., 1907, by Commonwealth ex rel. The National Farm School and L. Webster Fox, M. D., William S. Erdman, M. D., and T. Howard Atkinson, trustees of the “ Buckingham Agricultural Institute ” ■or Home for Boys, from decree of O. C., Phila. Co., April T., 1906, No. 11, dismissing exceptions to adjudication in Estate of Edward M. Paxson, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. Penrose, J., filed the adjudication which was in part as follows : The decedent, Hon. Edward M. Paxson, died without issue, October 12, 1905. By his will, admitted to probate November 8, 1905, upon proof…
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Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Mitchell,
Appellants have presented a learned argument on the etymology and primary meaning of the word “ attest,” but unfortunately it has little bearing on the question in this case. The word has several variations of meaning, subordinate to' the general sense, among which the latest authority, the new Oxford dictionary, gives (a) to bear witness to, to testify, to certify, (b) formally by signature. The exact question here is the sense in which the legislature used the word "in the Act of April 26, 1855, P. L. 328.
By the general wills Act of April 8, 1833, P. L.…
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