Brown's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to tbe Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia county. These were appeals by Thomas Neill and The Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives, &c., from the decree of the Orphans’ Court, on the accounts of George B. Reese, administrator with the will annexed of Susan B. Brown, and as executor of Mrs. Christiana Finney.
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Certiorari to tbe Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia county. These were appeals by Thomas Neill and The Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives, &c., from the decree of the Orphans’ Court, on the accounts of George B. Reese, administrator with the will annexed of Susan B. Brown, and as executor of Mrs. Christiana Finney. Mrs. Brown, who was one of the three daughters of George Biekhan died, having had no children, but leaving interested in her estate a sister, Mrs. Christiana Finney, a. nephew, Mr. Thomas Neill, a son of her deceased sister Ann'Neill, and seven children of Jacob Reese,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Woodward, J.
— Without going'into any of the erudite learning that was. lavished on these cases in the argument, we are of opinion that they may be well decided upon the face of the wills of the two sisters, Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Finney. Mrs. Brown, after giving, by her will, various legacies, divided the residue of her estate into two half parts — one of which she gave to her sister, Mrs. Finney, “ absolutély, so that she may dispose of the same by will or otherwise, as fully and amply as if the same now *293belonged to her” — and the other half to Mrs.…
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