Roberts's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal of Alexander Roberts, John W. Cowden and John A. Weir, from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Dauphin county, in the estate of George Geiger, deceased: Of May Term 1868, No. 53. The decedent died about September 1853, having never been married, and leaving a will which was proved on the 8th of that month, and letters testamentary granted to Joseph Geiger, the executor named in it.
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Appeal of Alexander Roberts, John W. Cowden and John A. Weir, from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Dauphin county, in the estate of George Geiger, deceased: Of May Term 1868, No. 53. The decedent died about September 1853, having never been married, and leaving a will which was proved on the 8th of that month, and letters testamentary granted to Joseph Geiger, the executor named in it. By his will, amongst other things, he directed $2000 to be set apart in stock, which he specified, and the dividends to be paid to his “niece Sally Eernsler during her lifetime, and at her decease” he gave…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion'of the court was delivered, July 2d 1868, by
Thompson, C. J.
The testator, George Geiger, deceased, left a will, containing numerous bequests and devises, and among them one to a grand-nephew, in the following words, viz.: “ I direct my executors to vest in stock, or in the purchase of good real estate in the county, the sum of $1000; the dividends, rents, or profits of which, to be applied to the support and education of my nephew George Geiger, son of Hiram Geiger, deceased, until he attains the age of twenty-one years; and in case he lives tq attain that age, I give the stock and…
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