Dickerson's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia county: Of July Term 1886, No. 145. Appeal of Maiy Dickerson, widow, from the decree of distribution of said court in the estate of her husband, John Dickerson, deceased.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia county: Of July Term 1886, No. 145. Appeal of Maiy Dickerson, widow, from the decree of distribution of said court in the estate of her husband, John Dickerson, deceased. The following are the facts as they appeared before the auditing Judge, Ashman, J. The decedent died testate on August 10th, 1884, leaving to survive him his widow, Mary Dickerson, and four children: Grace D. O’Connell, Thomas J. Dickerson, Charles T. Dickerson, E. Gertrude Manning, and four grandchildren, being the children of John M. Dickerson, a deceased son, viz.: — John B.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
If the bonds and bank stock in controversy were the subjects of valid trusts, impressed upon them by the testator in his lifetime in favor of his children and so remained until after his decease, they were not his property in his own right at the time of his death in 1884, and hence appellant, claiming as his widow against the will, has no interest in the securities or the proceeds thereof.
For reasons given in the opinion of its learned president, we think the Orphans’ Court was clearly right in holding that the securities in question were the subjects of express trusts, created by the…
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