Estate of Potter
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 28, Jan. T., 1898, by Le Grand Wells, from decree of O. C. Susquehanna Co., Aug. T., 1897, No. 53, in the matter of exceptions to widow’s inventory. Exceptions to widow’s inventory and appraisement. Before. Seakle, P. J. It appears from the auditor’s report that Erastus Potter died January 20,1893, testate, bequeathing and devising all his property to his widow, Jenett Potter. His property consisted of some personal property and thirty-three acres of land.
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Appeal, No. 28, Jan. T., 1898, by Le Grand Wells, from decree of O. C. Susquehanna Co., Aug. T., 1897, No. 53, in the matter of exceptions to widow’s inventory. Exceptions to widow’s inventory and appraisement. Before. Seakle, P. J. It appears from the auditor’s report that Erastus Potter died January 20,1893, testate, bequeathing and devising all his property to his widow, Jenett Potter. His property consisted of some personal property and thirty-three acres of land. The widow continued to reside on and receive the income of said property until after the real estate was sold by the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Beaver, J.,
The facts of this case are peculiar, and its determination must rest lrpon those facts. They are very fully stated in the opinion of the presiding judge in the court below, and need not be specially recounted here.
The law is especially solicitous and careful — and rightly so —of childhood and old age. The rights of the latter are to be guarded with as much of carefulness and solicitude as the former. As the time approaches for the passage into what we call second childhood, which is practically as helpless as early childhood, there is no reason why the law should not…
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