Acklin's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 115, Jan. T., 1912, by Mary M. Acklin, from decree of O. C. Fayette Co., June Court, 1908, No. 121, refusing to set aside executor’s sale of real estate in Estate of Eobert H. Acklin, deceased. Petition to set aside sale of real estate for the payment of debts. Before Work, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 115, Jan. T., 1912, by Mary M. Acklin, from decree of O. C. Fayette Co., June Court, 1908, No. 121, refusing to set aside executor’s sale of real estate in Estate of Eobert H. Acklin, deceased. Petition to set aside sale of real estate for the payment of debts. Before Work, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was the decree of the court refusing to set aside the sale. — The court had no power to grant an order of sale: Bashore v. Whisler, 3 Watts 490; Smith v. Wildman, 178 Pa. 245; Mustin’s Estate, 194 Pa. 437; McWilliam’s App., 117 Pa.…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Potter,
Robert H. Acklin died April 15, 1908, testate and leaving a widow, Mary M. Acklin, and three daughters. By his will, of which the Citizens Title & Trust Company of Uniontown, Pa., was executor, he directed that part of his real estate, including the premises here in controversy, should be sold by his executor, and one-third of the proceeds should be invested, the income to be paid to his widow during her life, and upon her death, the principal to be paid to his daughters, to whom he *530gave also the remaining two-thirds absolutely. The widow elected to take under the…
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