Kittel's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 13, May T\, 1892, by Loretta J. McDonald, legatee, from decree of O. C. Fulton Co., sustaining exceptions to report of auditor on exceptions to and distribution of administrator’s account in estate of John Kittel, deceased. Exceptions to report of auditor on exceptions to and distribution of administrator’s account. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 13, May T\, 1892, by Loretta J. McDonald, legatee, from decree of O. C. Fulton Co., sustaining exceptions to report of auditor on exceptions to and distribution of administrator’s account in estate of John Kittel, deceased. Exceptions to report of auditor on exceptions to and distribution of administrator’s account. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The opinion of the court below was as follows, by Mc- Clean, P. J.: “ Three of the daughters (Mrs. Ettie J. McDonald being one of them) of John Kittel, the testator, presented their petition to this court on the 4th…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
John Eittel died July 11, 1871. At his death he was the owner of personalty to the value of about $5,000, and of a valuable farm. He left five children ; to two of these, Catharine and George, he devised the farm, subject to the payment of a legacy of $3,000 to each of his three daughters, Mary, Emma, and Loretta. R. A. McDonald, the husband of Loretta, took out-letters c. t. a. on his estate, and settled his account on July 4, 1873, which was confirmed absolutely. On October 4, 1875, all the heirs and legatees joined in a petition to the orphans’ court for an order…
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