Buechley's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 5, Jan. T., 1923, by Laura B. Kenney et al., children of testator, from decree of O. C. Schuylkill Co., refusing issue devisavit vel non, in estate of William Buechley, Sr., deceased. Appeal from register of wills. Before Wilhelm, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Appeal dismissed. Laura B. Kenney and Fred Bryson Buechley, children of testator, appealed. Error assigned was decree, quoting it.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Walling,
William Buechley, Sr., of Pottsville, died in 1919, survived by three children, viz: Mrs. Laura B. Kenney, William Buechley, Jr., and Fred B. Buechley. The son, William, had long been the partner of his father in the lumber business, and produced what purported to be the latter’s holographic will made in January, 1910, wherein one thousand dollars was given to the son Fred, bank stock worth f9,750 to the daughter and, as appellee construes the instrument, the residue of the estate, valued at over one hundred thousand dollars, to him (William), who was made…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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- Schwartz's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1940
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