Coleman's Petition
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 67, Jan. T., 1894, by-Rosalie Parant Coleman et al., from decree of C. P. No. 1, Phila. Co., June T., 1893, No. 339, in the matter of the will of Robert Coleman, deceased. Petition for correction of records of register of wills.
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Appeal, No. 67, Jan. T., 1894, by-Rosalie Parant Coleman et al., from decree of C. P. No. 1, Phila. Co., June T., 1893, No. 339, in the matter of the will of Robert Coleman, deceased. Petition for correction of records of register of wills. The petition of the widow and heirs of George Dawson Coleman set forth: That George Dawson Coleman died in Paris, October, 1891, leaving no children; that he was the only son of Robert Coleman, a citizen of Pennsylvania, who died in Paris, 1878, leaving surviving a widow, Rosalie Parant Coleman. That on Sept. 2,1878, the register of wills was requested by…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice McCollum,
This is an appeal from an order of the court of common pleas commanding the register of wills of Philadelphia county to alter a record made on the 19th of September, 1878, by one of his predecessors in office.
The first contention of the appellant is that the order was not authorized by the statute relied on by the appellees to sustain it. By this statute it is made the duty of the judges of the courts of common pleas of the several counties of the commonwealth as often as the register of wills of any county shall be superseded, and as much oftener as shall be…
2Cited by1 opinion
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