Legal Opinion

Bilyeu's Estate

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided November 24, 1942No. Appeals, 152 and 188PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

The questions here presented are concerned with the proper distribution of a part of the residuary estate of Frazier P. Bilyeu. He died May 14, 1897, leaving the residue of his estate in trust to pay the income to his wife, Helen Yan B. Bilyeu, for life, and upon her death “to apportion my estate into as many parts as there are then surviving children of myself and my said wife, or the children of any child who may have died leaving issue, such children of a deceased child to represent, share and share alike, the share the parent would have taken if living;…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Quigley's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1938
  2. Wanamaker's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1939
  3. Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. WoodSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1902
  4. Reed's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1941
  5. Goodin's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1937

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3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Newlin EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1951
  2. Harris v. FranceCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1950
  3. Smith's Estate v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1944
  4. Laucks EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1948
  5. Batchelor EstatePennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County · 1949

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