Gilbert's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jan. T., 1910, by Anna B. Foreman, from decree of O. C. Franklin Co., No. 47, of 1909, dismissing exceptions to appraisement in Estate of Henry C. Gilbert, deceased. Exceptions to widow’s appraisement. Before Gillan, P. J. The facts appear in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was in dismissing exceptions.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Elicin,
March 28, 1910:
In the court below and here it was and is attempted to be shown that the act of 1909 relating to the descent and distribution of the estates of intestates is unconstitutional. It is contended that the act offends against secs. 3, 6 and 7 of art. Ill of the constitution. If the act was passed in disregard of any one of these constitutional requirements it must fall, but the learned court below was of opinion that these provisions of the organic law were not contravened and that the act was a valid exercise of legislative power. We concur in this…
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