Legal Opinion

Moorehead's Estate

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided March 17, 1927No. Appeals, 37 and 43PublishedCited by 80 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Frazer,

Gertrude F. Moorehead presented her petition to the Orphans’ Court of Allegheny County, asking that the trustees under the will of Mary H. Moorehead, late of that county, be required to pay petitioner out of the income in their hands payable to her husband, a sum sufficient for her support and maintenance, and that in the meantime the trustees be restrained from making payments to the husband. The court below held the husband liable for his wife’s support, and directed that the injunction previously issued against the trustees be continued for thirty days, to…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Broadway National Bank v. AdamsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1882
  2. Hidden v. JordanCalifornia Supreme Court · 1865
  3. Estate of StambaughSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1890
  4. Postlethwaite's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1871
  5. Hood v. Pennsylvania Society to Protect Children from CrueltySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1908

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3Cited by80 opinions

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  3. Pennsylvania Co., Etc. v. ScottSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1942
  4. Electrical Workers, Local No. 1 Credit Union v. IBEW-NECA Holiday Trust FundSupreme Court of Missouri · 1979
  5. Commonwealth v. BerfieldSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1946

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