Flanagan's Estate
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 70, Oct. T., 1914, by Sarah Travis, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., April T., 1913, No. 22, dismissing exceptions to adjudication in Estate of Bridget Flanagan, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. From the record it appeared that Bridget Flanagan died on January 7, 1912, leaving to survive her William Flanagan, her husband, but no issue.
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Appeal, No. 70, Oct. T., 1914, by Sarah Travis, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., April T., 1913, No. 22, dismissing exceptions to adjudication in Estate of Bridget Flanagan, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. From the record it appeared that Bridget Flanagan died on January 7, 1912, leaving to survive her William Flanagan, her husband, but no issue. By her will she gave her husband the sum of $1.00. William Flanagan filed his petition to take against her will the share in her estate she would have taken in his, including the preference of $5,000 given by the act of April 1, 1909. This…
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Kephart, J.,
The question before the court is the effect of a certificate of feme sole trader, under sec. 4, Act of 1855, P. L. 430, as it relates to the wife’s will denying the husband any of her estate, as opposed to a reconciliation in good faith, as it relates to the estate of the husband under the intestate laws. The construction of two acts of assembly, wherein the legislature has set forth the circumstances under which a married woman may transact business, dispose of her property, and in some instances, incur obligations against her husband’s property, is involved. The first…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Black v. TrickerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1868
- Moninger v. RitnerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1883
- Elsey v. McDanielSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1880
- Foreman v. HoslerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1880
- Orrell v. Van Gorder & ShepardSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1880
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