Estate of Pittman
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. May T., 1897, by Elizabeth Pittman, from decree of O. C. Fulton Co., on petition to sell real estate. Petition to sell real estate. Before Swope, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was the decree of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
George J. Pittman died September 17,1891, leaving a widow, but no children. He left an estate, consisting largely of land, part being a valuable improved farm of one hundred and thirty-five acres. Of this, he devised a particularly described field of twenty acres to an adopted daughter, Olive D. Pittman; another field, of thirty acres, particularly described, to his nephew, Thomas Johnston, this last, subject to the payment of $500 to a niece, Pleasant E. Mann; to his wife, Elizabeth, he devised and bequeathed the balance of the land and estate, subject to the…
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