Appeal of Hinkle
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
No. 109 July Term 1886, Sup. Ct. This “cause was an appeal by Dr. Franklin Hinkle, from the decree of the court below upon exceptions filed to the report of an auditor in the matter of the estate of John M. Whitehill, deceased, and directing the said Dr. Franklin Hinkle to give security for the use of Frank Whitehill Hinkle and others. John M. Whitehill died in 1866. By his will, dated Feb. 22, 1866, he directed that his estate should be divided into three equal shares.
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No. 109 July Term 1886, Sup. Ct. This “cause was an appeal by Dr. Franklin Hinkle, from the decree of the court below upon exceptions filed to the report of an auditor in the matter of the estate of John M. Whitehill, deceased, and directing the said Dr. Franklin Hinkle to give security for the use of Frank Whitehill Hinkle and others. John M. Whitehill died in 1866. By his will, dated Feb. 22, 1866, he directed that his estate should be divided into three equal shares. One share he gave to his daughter Jane Redsecker. One half of one other share he gave to his son James C. Whitehill; the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mu. Justice Trunkey :
The residue of the estate is given to the appellant “ to have and to hold the said estate with the rents, issues, and profits thereof during his life, for his own use and profit and enjoyment as he may see fit, giving my said husband full power to sell or dispose of the same during his life as he may desire, hereby giving him full power to convey the same or any part thereof, and make good and sufficient title and conveyances-therefor during his life.” He may give, as he thinks proper, to Frank Whitehill Hinkle, means to start in professional business. He is bound…
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