Ingles's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Oourt of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1873, No. 178. In the estate of James Ingles, deceased.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Oourt of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1873, No. 178. In the estate of James Ingles, deceased. The testator died September 23d 1869, leaving a will dated April 21st 1868, by which amongst other things he directed as follows:— “Item: It is my wish and I do will and direct, that my executors aforesaid cause a monument of Italian marble, with a granite base twenty inches thick, to be erected over my remains; said monument to be in the Gothic order, and the cost thereof, with the granite base aforesaid, to be five thousand dollars, or thereabouts ; and I…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sharswood
It is very plain that the testator in directing his executors to employ Joseph Kerr, architect (if living at the time) to draw the plan of the monument, which by his will he ordered to be erected over his remains, intended to intrust to that gentleman to determine the size and style of such monument, except that it was to be of Italian marble with a granite base twenty inches thick, and to be in the Gothic order. The architect has drawn a plan, and he testifies that he believes it to be just such a monument as to masonry and workmanship as the testator would have approved, if he had seen the…
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