Estate of Rittenhouse
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY BENJ. RITTENHOUSE FROM. THE ORPHANS’ COURT OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY. No. 153 July Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, number and term not given. In the Court below, Mr. J. A. Strassburger was appointed auditor, to determine exceptions and to report a schedule of distribution of the estate of Louisa Rittenhouse, deceased.
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APPEAL BY BENJ. RITTENHOUSE FROM. THE ORPHANS’ COURT OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY. No. 153 July Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, number and term not given. In the Court below, Mr. J. A. Strassburger was appointed auditor, to determine exceptions and to report a schedule of distribution of the estate of Louisa Rittenhouse, deceased. On the hearing before the auditor it was shown that Louisa Rittenhouse had died on or about May 21, 1887, leaving a will dated July 14,1886, duly admitted to probate on May 25, 1887, wherein a legacy of f500 was bequeathed to Christ’s Episcopal' Church at Swedesburg, and…
1Per curiam
The learned auditor has given sufficient reasons for awarding to the St. James’ Episcopal Church at Evansburg, and to Christ’s Church of Swedesburg, the legacies to which they were entitled under the will of Louisa Rittenhouse. The appellant claimed these legacies, although not entitled to them by the will, by virtue of an alleged agreement or comprbmise by which he was induced to withdraw his objections to the probate of the will. But he failed to show any valid agreement by which the church authorities agreed that he should receive these legacies.
It is true, a paper was produced purporting…
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