White's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 55, Jan. T., 1916, by- Thomas Huben, from decree of O. C. Schuylkill Co., Docket 8, p. 160, refusing issue devisavit vel non in case of Estate of Fargus White. Petition for issue devisavit vel non. Before Wilhelm, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court refused. the petition. Thomas Huben appealed. Error assigned was the decree of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Me. Justice Walling,
This is an appeal by contestant from a decree of the Orphan^’ Court refusing to award an issue in a will contest. Fargus White, a resident of Ashland, Schuylkill County, died March 16, 1914, leaving an estate of about eighteen thousand dollars, mostly in money. He lived to the age of eighty years, but never married, and left nephews and nieces as his next of kin. He owned a double house, one part of which was his home. His sister, Mrs. Michael Huben, who died in 1912, was his housekeeper for over twenty years. Her son, Michael P. Huben, the proponent, lived with…
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