Grim's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Co.urt of Lehigh county: Of January Term 1879, No. 224. Appeal of Martin Grim from the decree of the court confirming the report of the auditor appointed to audit and resettle the accounts of Abraham Grim, deceased. Abraham Grim died March 22d 1874, leaving a widow and six children, and a tract of about one hundred and thirty acres of land.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Co.urt of Lehigh county: Of January Term 1879, No. 224. Appeal of Martin Grim from the decree of the court confirming the report of the auditor appointed to audit and resettle the accounts of Abraham Grim, deceased. Abraham Grim died March 22d 1874, leaving a widow and six children, and a tract of about one hundred and thirty acres of land. By his will he provided as follows : “ To my son, James, now residing on my farm, I give and bequeath the whole of my farms and lands, with the following restrictions : he is to pay for said farm $6000, $1000 to remain as a dower,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mercur
This contention is between a devisee and a legatee under the will of Abraham Grim, of whom they are sons and heirs. The testator devised to the appellee the whole of his real estate charged with the payment of $5500, the interest on $1000 thereof to be paid to his widow while she continued such, and the residue to be equally divided among his other five children, of whom the appellant is one. It is found as a fact that the real estate was of the value of $6600. Such being the case it indicates that the testator intended an equal distribution of his estate among all his children. The intention…
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