Legal Opinion

Todd's Estate

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided May 15, 1916No. Appeal, No. 266PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal, No. 266, Jan. T., 1915, by Sarah A. Todd Memorial Home, from decree of O. C. Cumberland Co., dismissing rule to show cause why certain real estate should not'be delivered to petitioner by the executors of the estate of Sarah A. Todd, deceased. Petition for rule to show cause why the executors of a decedent’s estate should not turn over certain real estate of which deceased died seized to the petitioner.

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Appeal, No. 266, Jan. T., 1915, by Sarah A. Todd Memorial Home, from decree of O. C. Cumberland Co., dismissing rule to show cause why certain real estate should not'be delivered to petitioner by the executors of the estate of Sarah A. Todd, deceased. Petition for rule to show cause why the executors of a decedent’s estate should not turn over certain real estate of which deceased died seized to the petitioner. Before Sadler, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states th© case. Error assigned, among others, was in dismissing the rule.

1Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam,

Appellant’s petition in the court below was for a rule to show cause why certain real estate of which Sarah A.. Todd, deceased, had died seized, should not be turned1 over to it by her executors. Its petition was properly dismissed by the learned president judge of the court below for want of jurisdiction to entertain it: Willard’s App., 65 Pa. 265; Hazard’s Est., 253 Pa. 447.

Appeal dismissed at appellant’s costs.

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Willard's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1870
  2. Hazard's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1916

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Duff's EstatePennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County · 1924