Legal Opinion

Megargel Estate

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided January 11, 1944No. Appeal, 48PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Allen M. Stearns,

This is an appeal from a decree of an orphans’ court striking off exceptions to an adjudication of an executor’s account upon the ground that exceptant was not an interested party.

Appellant Florence E. Wert, the exceptant below, is of next of kin of her cousin, Effie S. Clift. She has taken an appeal from the probate of the will of Effie S. Clift, and if successful in setting the will aside, will be entitled, as next of kin, to a distributive share in that estate. Effie S. Clift was a beneficiary under the will of her sister, Elva C. Megargel. Elva…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Gongaware's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1920

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Kilpatrick EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1951
  2. Craig EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1954
  3. Estate of StephensonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1976
  4. Flick Estate, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Montgomery County1974
  5. Flick Estate, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Montgomery County1974

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