Yundt's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was an appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Lancaster county, by the -executors of the will of John Yundt, deceased. John Yundt made his will, dated on the 23d day of March, 1829, and died in April, 1832. One of his daughters, Polly, had been long married to Joseph Horst, by whom she had several children, before the date' of said will.- Horst became insolvent.
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This was an appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Lancaster county, by the -executors of the will of John Yundt, deceased. John Yundt made his will, dated on the 23d day of March, 1829, and died in April, 1832. One of his daughters, Polly, had been long married to Joseph Horst, by whom she had several children, before the date' of said will.- Horst became insolvent. He owed to Yundt, the deceased, more than $6000.— After all of Horst’s debts to said deceased had been contracted, John Yundt made his will, which’ provided as follows: “Further, it is my will that all the remainder of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Bell, J.
John Yundt, by his last will, dated March 23,1829, directed the remainder of his estate to be apparently increased by the addition of all the advancements theretofore made by him to his children, and the aggregate thus ascertained to be divided into ten equal shares, to be distributed among certain of his children named, after deducting from the share of each child the sum *579advanced to him or her by the testator. Among these children is named his daughter Polly, then intermarried with Joseph Horst, who was largely indebted to the father. The…
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