Estate of Gold
Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Northampton County
No. 317 January Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, number and term not given. On March 6, 1889, a final account of Reuben Messinger, executor of the will of Jacob Gold, deceased, exhibiting a balance in the hands of the accountants, was presented in the court below and confirmed nisi, and thereupon the court appointed Mr. A. B. Longalcer, auditor, to make distribution of said balance.
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No. 317 January Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, number and term not given. On March 6, 1889, a final account of Reuben Messinger, executor of the will of Jacob Gold, deceased, exhibiting a balance in the hands of the accountants, was presented in the court below and confirmed nisi, and thereupon the court appointed Mr. A. B. Longalcer, auditor, to make distribution of said balance. Subsequently, the order appointing the auditor was amended so as to authorize him to examine and re-state the account, if necessary. At the audit, the residuary legatees under the will asked that the accountant…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Chief Justice Paxson :
This case is upon all fours, both as to its law and its facts, with Markley’s Est., 132 Pa. 352, decided at this term, where we held that the widow had the right to use so much of the personal estate as was necessary for her comfort and support, and that it was only the residue that was to go to the testator’s children after her death.
In the case in hand, the personal estate consisted of household goods, farm implements and live-stock, pigs, chickens and farm crops, a note of I860, and one of |150, with some credits indorsed thereon.
The testator disposed of…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Estate of MarkleySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1890
- Hofius v. HofiusSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1880
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