Loughrey's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 142, Oct. T., 1914, by Emma I. Eose and Annie L. Moore, from decree of O. C. Allegheny Co., June T., 1913, No. 247, dismissing petition for payment of legacies in Estate of Margaret C. Loughrey, deceased. Petition to compel payment of legacies alleged to be charged on land under a will. Before Trimble, J. The Guarantee Title and Trust Company mortgagee of the land in question, was made a joint defendant. Further facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 142, Oct. T., 1914, by Emma I. Eose and Annie L. Moore, from decree of O. C. Allegheny Co., June T., 1913, No. 247, dismissing petition for payment of legacies in Estate of Margaret C. Loughrey, deceased. Petition to compel payment of legacies alleged to be charged on land under a will. Before Trimble, J. The Guarantee Title and Trust Company mortgagee of the land in question, was made a joint defendant. Further facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The lower court dismissed the petition. Emma I. Eose qnd Annie L. Moore, appealed. Error assigned, among others, was in…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Potter,
In the first paragraph of her will, Margaret C. Loughrey decláred, “I devise unto my son, Thomas E. Loughrey, my homestead property on Forbes Street to have and to hold to himself absolutely.” In the second paragraph she gave to the same son all of her household effects. In the third paragraph she provided that all the rest and residue of her estate should be given to trustees with power to convert all her property into money iwithin a period of ten years; and with full authority, during that period, to invest the money and manage the trust fund. She further…
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