Estate of Farnum
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 224, Jan. T., 1896, by Chas. H. Krumbhaar et al., from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., No. 166, Oct. T., 1879, in the estate of Henry Farnum, dismissing exceptions to adjudication. Adjudication of the second account of the Fidelity Insurance, Trust & Safe Deposit Company of Philadelphia, substituted trustees under the will of Henry Farnum, deceased. The material portions of the will and the facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 224, Jan. T., 1896, by Chas. H. Krumbhaar et al., from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., No. 166, Oct. T., 1879, in the estate of Henry Farnum, dismissing exceptions to adjudication. Adjudication of the second account of the Fidelity Insurance, Trust & Safe Deposit Company of Philadelphia, substituted trustees under the will of Henry Farnum, deceased. The material portions of the will and the facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The first distribution referred to in the court below by Pen-rose, J., is reported as Farnum’s Est., 16 Phila. 215. The opinion of the…
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Opinion by
Mr. Justice Green,
The question at issue in this case is confined within narrow limits. It is a perplexing question nevertheless, rendered so chiefly by the circumstance, that we find ourselves obliged to differ with the learned court below in two opinions delivered on the same question, at different times, by two of the very able and accomplished judges of that court. As we view the case it resolves itself into a mere question as to what was the intention of the testator as expressed in his will, in regard to the subject of interest on the advancement to his daughter Mrs. Bell. Two…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Porter's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1880
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