Newlin v. Phillips
Court of Chancery of Delaware
Petition for Allowance of an Appeal from an Order Overruling a Demurrer. On May 1st, 1911, The Penn Syndicate, Guardian of Amy Eugenia Clark, one of the defendants, filed a petition praying the allowance of an appeal from an order entered in conformity with the foregoing opinion overruling the demurrer.
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor:
James B. Newlin, by will, gave all his property to his wife, Emma Alice Newlin, desiring her to carefully husband it so as that the income therefrom should give her a comfortable livelihood for the remainder of her life, and desired that at her death such as might then be remaining be equally divided between the brothers and sisters of the tes*166tatar then living. After his death in 1896 his widow, Emma Alice Newlin, became his executrix, and at the death of the widow in-1904, there were living two sisters of James B. Newlin, the complainants, but no brothers. At the time of his…
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