Newton's Estate
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 103 and 228, Oct. T., 1919, by Osteopathic Hospital, Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting of Friends, specific legatees, and Fidelity Trust Company, James Collins Jones and William M. Graham, Trustees, from the decree of O. C. Phila. County, April T., 1918, No. 583, in Estate of Lillie G. Newton, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. Before Gest, J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court.
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Appeals, Nos. 103 and 228, Oct. T., 1919, by Osteopathic Hospital, Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting of Friends, specific legatees, and Fidelity Trust Company, James Collins Jones and William M. Graham, Trustees, from the decree of O. C. Phila. County, April T., 1918, No. 583, in Estate of Lillie G. Newton, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. Before Gest, J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. After argument before Anderson, Gummey, Gest and Henderson, JJ., the court being evenly divided, the exceptions were dismissed and the adjudication confirmed. Gummey, J., concurred…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Porter, J.,
The testatrix by her will bequeathed pecuniary and specific legacies aggregating $121,006.70 and, by the tenth clause, devised and bequeathed “All the rest, residue and remainder” of her estate to the Fidelity Trust Co. et al., trustees for certain charitable uses. The net estate for distribution, after payment of debts and the collateral inheritance tax, which by the will was directed to be paid out of the residuary estate, amounted to $293,-526.95. The executors of the will had paid the Federal Estate tax, imposed by the Act of Congress approved September 8, 1916, 39 U.…
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