Hickman's Estate
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Keller, P. J.,
The testatrix was the widow of John A. Hickman. By his will he bequeathed to her all his household furniture, and a life estate in the residue of his estate, without giving security, and with the right to dispose of the same 1 by her last will and testament.
By her will she disposed of her husband’s estate in conjunction with her own. She gave, in paragraph 2, “my stock in the Bridgeville Trust Company” to four second cousins, Thomas Weaver, Jr., Park Hickman, W. C. Caldwell and Alice Weaver Patterson, these appellants, “to be equally divided among them”.
In paragraph 3,…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Hoke v. HermanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1853
- Moore v. GilbertSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1926
- Appeal of the Pennsylvania Co. for Insurances on Lives & Granting AnnuitiesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1885
- Meetkirk's EstateSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1935
- Hunlock Township School District v. Northwest Joint School DistrictSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1955
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Cassidy's Estate, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County1941
- Riblet's EstatePennsylvania Orphans' Court, Erie County · 1947
- Rice Estate, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Chester County1972