Harned's Estate
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 101, Oct. T., 1912, by Norristown Trust Company, Executor and Trustee, from decree of O. C. Montgomery Co., Sept. Term, 1911, No. 77, dismissing exceptions to adjudication in Estate of Charity Harned, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. Before Solly, P. J. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. Errors assigned were in dismissing exceptions to adjudication.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Head J.,
Charity Harned, the testatrix, died in 1887, leaving to survive her a husband and several children. The bulk of her estate, at the time of her death, consisted of a tract of land in Montgomery county. After a single specific bequest of clothing, wearing apparel and jewelry to three of her daughters hereinafter referred to, she devised and bequeathed all the rest and residue of her estate to her daughter Merian “upon the active and operative trust following, &c.” The primary beneficiary of the trust thus created was her surviving husband. During his natural life the trustee…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Little's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1876
- Leech's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1910
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