Orcutt's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia county: Of July Term 1880, No. 97. This was an appeal by Lydia Ann Orcutt, executrix of the estate of Wesley Grindle, deceased, under letters testamentary, granted in New Jersey, from the decree of the said Orphans’ Court, dismissing her exceptions to the adjudication on the account of the Fidelity Insurance, Trust and Safe-Deposit Company, administrators c. t. a. of the said decedent in Pennsylvania, and confirming the said…
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia county: Of July Term 1880, No. 97. This was an appeal by Lydia Ann Orcutt, executrix of the estate of Wesley Grindle, deceased, under letters testamentary, granted in New Jersey, from the decree of the said Orphans’ Court, dismissing her exceptions to the adjudication on the account of the Fidelity Insurance, Trust and Safe-Deposit Company, administrators c. t. a. of the said decedent in Pennsylvania, and confirming the said adjudication. The facts, as stated in the adjudication of the auditing judge, Hanna, P. J., were as follows: “Wesley…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
The fund for distribution, $22,029.02, as shown by the account of the ancillary administrator, is the net proceeds of United States ten-forty bonds, which belonged to Wesley Grindle, a citizen of the state of New Jersey, and domiciled therein at the time of his decease in June 1879. The bonds deposited by the decedent with the Fidelity Insurance, Trust and Safe Deposit Company of Philadelphia for safe keeping, had been called for redemption, and being over due, wore payable on presentation at the United States Treasury. By his last will and testament the decedent gave a legacy of $2000 to his…
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