Darling v. Edson
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal No. 45, Jan. T., 1897, by defendants, from order of C. P. Luzerne Co., Oct. T., 1895, No. 890, dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report and confirming a distribution thereunder. Exceptions to auditor’s report. Before Woodward, P. J. The question arose on distribution of proceeds of sheriff’s sale of real estate of J. H. Edson, one of the defendants.
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Appeal No. 45, Jan. T., 1897, by defendants, from order of C. P. Luzerne Co., Oct. T., 1895, No. 890, dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report and confirming a distribution thereunder. Exceptions to auditor’s report. Before Woodward, P. J. The question arose on distribution of proceeds of sheriff’s sale of real estate of J. H. Edson, one of the defendants. The real estate sold was formerly owned by the father pf defendant Eliphalet Edson, who died in September, 1864. By his will he devised and bequeathed his estate to his wife, Elizabeth Edson, with power of appointment among his children.…
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Wickham, J.,
Eliphalet Edson, by his last will and testament, .devised and bequeathed his estate as follows: “ As to such real and personal estate as God has pleased to entrust me with I dispose of the same as follows, viz : I give and bequeath to my beloved wife, Elizabeth Edson, the full control of all real and personal estate as long as she shall remain my widow (except what is hereafter mentioned) and I also empower my said wife, on condition that she remain my widow, full power by will to divide all my real and personal estate among my children as she shall see proper, giving to…
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