Miles's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 61 and 62, by Emma Marks Ross and Charles P. Marks, from decree of O. C. Allegheny Co., Noy. T., 1920, No. 171, dismissing exceptions to adjudication, in estate of Kate Miles, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. Before Trimble, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Exceptions dismissed. Emma Marks Ross and Charles P. Marks, second cousins of deceased, appealed. Error assigned, inter alia, was above decree, quoting it.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Me. Chief Justice Moschzisker,
The question here presented involves the right of appellants, who are second cousins, to share with first *332cousins in the distribution of the estate of an intestate, there being-no nearer kindred.
The Act of June 7, 1917, P. L. 429, designates the persons who are entitled to the real and personal estate of an intestate after the payment of all just debts and legal charges. The first eight sections of the statute determine the distributive shares of the spouse, issue, father and mother; and, in absence of these, the ninth section provides for a division…
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