Fry's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 19, July T., 1898, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., Oct. T., 1891, No. 588, dismissing exceptions to adjudication. Exceptions to adjudication of executors’ account.
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Appeal, No. 19, July T., 1898, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., Oct. T., 1891, No. 588, dismissing exceptions to adjudication. Exceptions to adjudication of executors’ account. From the adjudication, by Ferguson, J., it appeared that Cornelia M. Fry died Aug. 27, 1891, leaving a will executed in 1873, by which she provided as follows: “ 6. I further direct my said trustees to pay to my granddaughters Mabel Bidgway and Cornelia Norris the sum of two thousand dollars each when they shall reach the age of twenty-one years respectively and I hope they will devote five hundred dollars of said sum…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice McCollum,
The learned auditing judge regarded the legacy to Edith *33Norris as absolute and payable within one year from the death of the testatrix, and he accordingly directed that it should be paid to her guardian. Exceptions were filed to the adjudication, but upon argument and due consideration they were dismissed and it was confirmed "by a divided court. ' The. manner in which the case was decided indicates that there was room for disagreement respecting the questions involved in it. All concede, however, that in the decision of the case- the intention of 'the testatrix…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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