Lilley's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 98 and 100, Oct. T., 1921, by Thomas Elliott and Jacob Elliott, Executors, and Lilley Coal & Coke Co., Intervener, from decree of O. C. Washington Co., May T., 1920, No. 50, refusing executors’ petition to execute an agreement, in estate of Thomas E. Lilley, deceased. Petition of executors to execute a royalty agreement. Before Hughes, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Petition dismissed.
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Appeals, Nos. 98 and 100, Oct. T., 1921, by Thomas Elliott and Jacob Elliott, Executors, and Lilley Coal & Coke Co., Intervener, from decree of O. C. Washington Co., May T., 1920, No. 50, refusing executors’ petition to execute an agreement, in estate of Thomas E. Lilley, deceased. Petition of executors to execute a royalty agreement. Before Hughes, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Petition dismissed. Thomas Elliott and Jacob Elliott, executors, and Lilley Coal & Coke Co., intervener, appealed. Error assigned, inter alia, was decree, quoting it.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Kepiiart,
This is an appeal from a decree of the court below refusing to grant authority to the executors of Thomas E. Lilley to join in and execute a proposed royalty agreement; while the decree of the court below denied the prayers of the petition, its effect was vastly more comprehensive, for, to deny the requests, the validity of the will must be attacked. The executors, and others interested, have taken this appeal. The proceedings are complicated, and it is necessary to briefly recite those upon which the decision must rest.
Thomas E. Lilley, aged seventy years, by…
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