Knell's Estate
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 10, March T., 1911, by Susie J. Linthicum et al., from decree of O. C. York Co., dismissing appeal from register of wills in estate of Joseph Knell, deceased. Appeal from register of wills. Bittenger, J., filed the following opinion.
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Appeal, No. 10, March T., 1911, by Susie J. Linthicum et al., from decree of O. C. York Co., dismissing appeal from register of wills in estate of Joseph Knell, deceased. Appeal from register of wills. Bittenger, J., filed the following opinion. It appears from the record returned that the register of wills granted letters testamentary in the estate of Joseph Knell, late of Peach Bottom township, deceased, on November 18,1904, to Elizabeth M. Knell and Wilson Z. Macomber, the executors named in the will. After a partial administration and the filing of an account by the executor and executrix…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
This is an appeal by certain of the residuary legatees under the will of Joseph Knell, from the decree of the orphans’ court dismissing their appeal from the refusal of the register of wills to revoke letters of administration d. b. n. c. t. a., granted to Hugh W. Ramsay. The history of the proceedings is fully and accurately set forth in the opinion of the learned president judge of the orphans’ court, and need not be restated at length. But there are certain facts that we deem it important to emphasize. The letters were granted on June 9, 1909, and the petition to…
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- Sarkie's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1845
- Sharpe's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1878