Weber's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 195, Jan. T., 1920, by Charles O. Filbert, from decree of O. C. Berks Co., File No. 2392, Term 1919, dismissing rule for issue devisavit vel non in Estate of Albert S. Weber, deceased. Rule for issue devisavit vel non. Before Schaeffer, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court discharged the rule. Charles O. Filbert appealed. Error assigned was decree dismissing rule for issue.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Stewart,
Albert S. Weber, late a resident of the City of Reading, died 3d of February, 1919, unmarried and leaving to survive him as his next of kin five brothers and two sisters. No will having been produced after his death, letters of administration on his estate were granted by the register to Rudolph S. Weber, the eldest brother of the deceased. In a few weeks thereafter Charles O. Filbert filed his petition with the register of wills in which he alleged that decedent had died testate, but that shortly before his death he had inadvertently or accidentally torn the…
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