Himes's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Bedford county: Of May Term 1880, No. 158. Appeal of Catharine Himes from the decree of the court confirming the appraisement setting aside $300 worth of property of Susan Anderson, deceased, for the use of the minor child of decedent. Susan Anderson died on the 13th of November 1877, intestate, leaving to survive her one child, Francis Anderson, a minor.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Bedford county: Of May Term 1880, No. 158. Appeal of Catharine Himes from the decree of the court confirming the appraisement setting aside $300 worth of property of Susan Anderson, deceased, for the use of the minor child of decedent. Susan Anderson died on the 13th of November 1877, intestate, leaving to survive her one child, Francis Anderson, a minor. Her husband had deserted her, and had not been heard of for more than seven years previous to her death. At the time of her death, she owned and possessed personal property and a tract of land comprising…
1Opinion of the Court
The judgment of the Supreme court was entered,
2Per curiam
This contention is as to the right of the appellee to have, the property of her deceased mother, in value less than three hundred dollars, set off to her under the act of 14th April 1851. The appellee is a minor, and her mother, before and at the time of her death, was a widow. It is contended that the appellee is not entitled to it, under the authority of King’s Appeal, 3 Norris 345. In seeking to ascertain the true ruling in any case, due regard must be had to the facts on which it was decided. The contention there was between the husband of the…
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