Legal Opinion

Yung's Estate

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided April 1, 1901No. Appeal, No. 290PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Appeal, No. 290, Jan. T., 1900, by John Rulil, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., April T., 1891, No. 279, awarding redistribution in the Estate of Sophia Yung, Deceased. Petition for bill of review. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court.

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Appeal, No. 290, Jan. T., 1900, by John Rulil, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., April T., 1891, No. 279, awarding redistribution in the Estate of Sophia Yung, Deceased. Petition for bill of review. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court entered the following decree: The decree heretofore made on the adjudication of account of administrator is vacated and set aside, and it is ordered and decreed that adjudication be opened, and of the balance for distribution shown adjudication, one third thereof, or $832.61, is awarded to Johann Kreb, nephew; one sixth, or…

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mb. Justice Beown,

Sophia Yung died April 19, 1890, intestate, unmarried and without issue. On April 29, 1890, letters of administration on her estate were granted to John Ruhl, one of the appellants. These letters were issued to Mm upon his petition to the register of wills, setting forth that Magdelina Ruhl was the only sister and next of kin of the deceased, which statement she also made in her renunciation of her right to administer. On July 2, *371891, upon the petition of John Ruhl, the appellant, supported by his affidavit that his wife, the said Magdelina Ruhl, as the only…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Lessee of Douglass v. SandersonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1791

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Stetson's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1931
  2. Commonwealth v. A. B. Baxter & Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1912
  3. Commonwealth v. GregorySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1918
  4. O'Malley v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1911

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