Estate of Grimm
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY MARY GRIMM PROM THE ORPHANS’ COURT OE ALLEGHENY COUNTY. No. 208 October Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 350 September Term 1887, O. C. On November 19, 1887, there was filed in the court below an inventory and appraisement of goods and chattels to the amount of $300, which were of Gottfried Grimm, deceased, and which Mary Grimm elected to retain as widow of said decedent ; together with a petition of said Mary Grimm praying that the same be set apart to her in…
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APPEAL BY MARY GRIMM PROM THE ORPHANS’ COURT OE ALLEGHENY COUNTY. No. 208 October Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 350 September Term 1887, O. C. On November 19, 1887, there was filed in the court below an inventory and appraisement of goods and chattels to the amount of $300, which were of Gottfried Grimm, deceased, and which Mary Grimm elected to retain as widow of said decedent ; together with a petition of said Mary Grimm praying that the same be set apart to her in accordance with § 5, act of April 14, 1851, P. L. 613. Thereupon the court made an order confirming said appraisement…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Chief Justice Paxson :
This case is peculiar. The appellant filed her petition in the court below, claiming to be the widow of Gottfried Grimm, and asking that $300 worth of property be appraised and set apart to her out of the estate of said decedent. The court below disallowed her claim.
The evidence upon which her claim to widowhood was based *202amounts to this: That the appellant and the deceased cohabited together as man and wife for one week prior to the death of the latter; that the marriage ceremony was to have been performed the following week, but that it was prevented by the…
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