Mulligan's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 266, Jan. T., 1893, by Henry S. Cattell, assignee for benefit of creditors of James Mulligan, Jr., from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., July T., 1890, No. 182, sustaining exceptions to adjudication of account of James Mulligan, Jr., executor of James Mulligan, Sr., deceased. Adjudication of executor’s account. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 266, Jan. T., 1893, by Henry S. Cattell, assignee for benefit of creditors of James Mulligan, Jr., from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., July T., 1890, No. 182, sustaining exceptions to adjudication of account of James Mulligan, Jr., executor of James Mulligan, Sr., deceased. Adjudication of executor’s account. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The auditing judge, Ferguson, J., corrected the account by-adding commissions which the accountant had refused to charge, and awarded two thirds of the balance to appellant, assignee of accountant for benefit of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice McCollum,
The testator, after directing that his funeral expenses should be promptly paid and that one thousand dollars should be expended for masses for the repose of his soul, bequeathed “unto the St. Johns Orphan Asylum, St. Vincents Home, and the Catholic Home, 18th and Race Sts., each the sum of $500.” To his wife Elizabeth he bequeathed one third of the balance of his personal estate absolutely and the net income of one third of his real estate during her natural life. To his son, James, he bequeathed his entire business as then “ conducted and carried on ” by him…
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