Legal Opinion

Neafie's Estate

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided May 13, 1901No. Appeal, No. 26PublishedCited by 30 opinions

Appeal, No. 26, Jan. T., 1901, by Mathias Seddinger, trustee, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., removing trustee, in the Estate of Jacob G. Neafie, deceased. Petition to remove testamentary trustee. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was the decree of the court.

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mb. Justice Mestrezat,

Jacob G. Neafie died January 16, 1898, leaving a will dated December 18, 1891. He named his wife, Mary A. Neafie, and Mathias Seddinger as his executors and trustees. By his will, the testator gave his wife, inter alia, the one third of his residuary personal estate absolutely and the one half of the income from his residuary real estate for her life. He bequeathed the residue of his personal estate to his executors in trust to pay the income thereof to his daughter, Mary E. Whitaker, during life, and devised his residuary real estate to his executors in trust…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Stevenson's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1871
  2. Estate of NathansSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1899

3Cited by30 opinions

  1. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. BrownDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1966
  2. Crawford's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1940
  3. Thompson WillSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1965
  4. Musser's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1940
  5. Fraiman EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1962

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