Metzger's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 254, Jan. T., 1912, by Clara L. Rogers, a devisee under the will of Charles W. Metzger, deceased, from the decree of the Superior Court, of Oct. T., 1911, No. 104, reversing decree of O. C. Lancaster Co., Sept. T., 1904, No. 64, making distribution in the Estate of Charles W. Metzger, deceased. Appeal from Superior Court.
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Appeal, No. 254, Jan. T., 1912, by Clara L. Rogers, a devisee under the will of Charles W. Metzger, deceased, from the decree of the Superior Court, of Oct. T., 1911, No. 104, reversing decree of O. C. Lancaster Co., Sept. T., 1904, No. 64, making distribution in the Estate of Charles W. Metzger, deceased. Appeal from Superior Court. The opinion of the Superior Court by Porter, J., was as follows: The Orphans’ Court of Lancaster County on July 20, 1905, entered a decree adjudicating the balance in the hands of John E. Snyder, surviving executor of Charles W. Metzger, deceased, for…
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Opinion by
Me. Justice Mestrezat,
This is an appeal from the decree of the Superior Court, reversing a decree of the Orphans’ Court of Lancaster County. The opinion of the Superior Court conclusively demonstrates the correctness of its decree, and shows the wholly indefensible position as well as the error in the conclusion of the learned judge of the Orphans’ Court. It needs nothing more than a brief statement of the material facts to convict the Orphans’ Court of palpable error.
The surviving executor of Charles W. Metzger, deceased, filed an account in the register’s office of Lancaster…
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