Carroll's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 71, Oct. T., 1907, by Sinah Jaquay, from decree of O. C. Allegheny Co., June T., 1906, No. 95, sustaining exceptions to adjudication in Estate of Martha J. Carroll, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. The facts arc stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was decree sustaining exceptions to adjudication.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Potter,
This case was presented to the orphans’ court as resting upon two grounds. First, that claimant was the adopted child of the decedent, Martha J. Carroll; and, second, that if she was not an adopted child there had been a contract with decedent for her adoption, under which claimant was *444entitled to recover the proportion, of the estate which would have gone to her had she been duly and regularly adopted. The auditing judge found that while under regular proceedings; in accordance with the statute, in the court of common pleas, the claimant had been adopted by D. W.…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- Kauss v. RohnerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1896
- Morrison v. Estate of SessionsMichigan Supreme Court · 1888
- Butterfield v. SawyerIllinois Supreme Court · 1900
- Ballard v. WardSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1879
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