Estate of Wampole
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 61, Nov. T., 1896, by Christ’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, from .decree of O. C. Bucks Co., sustaining exceptions to ..report of auditor in the estate of Lavina Wampole, deceased. Exception to auditor’s report.
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Appeal, No. 61, Nov. T., 1896, by Christ’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, from .decree of O. C. Bucks Co., sustaining exceptions to ..report of auditor in the estate of Lavina Wampole, deceased. Exception to auditor’s report. Harvey D. Fellman, as executor of the will of Lavina Wampole, deceased, filed a final account on the 3d of June, 1895. Christ’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, of Trumbauersville, Bucks county, Pa., filed exceptions to the account on the 25th day of June, 1895. An auditor, Elias Carver, Esq., was appointed by the orphans’ court of Bucks county to pass upon the exceptions,…
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Opinion by
Wickham, J.,
Two incorporated religious bodies, viz: Christ’s Evangelical Lutheran Church of Trumbauersville, and the German Reformed Church of Trumbauersville owned in common, and used alternately, a house of worship in the village of Trumbauersville.
Lavina Wampole, for many years before her death a widow, had been baptized in the first named church, when young, for over thirty years had been a regular member and communicant thereof, and regularly contributed to the voluntary funds raised, from time to time, to pay its necessary expenses. With the other congregation she seems to…
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