Lewis's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Allegheny county :■ Of October Term, 1884, No. 222; ... Appeal of Anna W. Lewis from a decree of said court,' making distribution of the estate of Edward Duff, deceased. Edward Duff died' testate, November 10th, 1882, leaving a daughter, Mrs. Anna W. Lewis, one son, William Duff, and-children of a deceased son, George Duff.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Allegheny county :■ Of October Term, 1884, No. 222; ... Appeal of Anna W. Lewis from a decree of said court,' making distribution of the estate of Edward Duff, deceased. Edward Duff died' testate, November 10th, 1882, leaving a daughter, Mrs. Anna W. Lewis, one son, William Duff, and-children of a deceased son, George Duff. By his will,-dated-September 4th, 1880, he provided as follows : ‘i11'give and.bequeath to my daughter, Mrs, Anna W. Lewis,1 ten thousand dollars in cash; also all my stock in the First National Bank of Pittsburgh, consisting, at the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Mercur
By the original will of Edward Duff he gave and bequeathed to his daughter, Mrs. Anna W. Lewis, ten thousand dollars in cash; also all his stock in the First National Bank of Pittsburgh, and all his stock in the Pittsburgh and Birmingham Passenger Railway Company. After making other bequests *136to other persons, the testator proceeds to declare “ all the rest and residue of my,estate, real and personal, shall be divided .into three shares, which shares shall be given and distributed as follows: one of said shares to my daughter, Anna W. Lewis, which is in addition to the other-bequests…
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