Beck's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 125, 126 and 127, Jan. T., 1909, by Viola Beck et al., from decree of O. C. Huntingdon Co., dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report in Estate of Jacob Beck, deceased. Exceptions to report of T. W. Myton, Esq., auditor. Before Woods, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. Error assigned was decree dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Stewart,
These several appeals are from the same decree: they present the same questions, and may be disposed of together.
If the particular gift here to be considered should be thought singular, some reason for it will be found in the peculiar situation with respect to his family which confronted the testator when he came to make final disposition of his estate. He was the father of nine children, five of whom had left the family home and were living in established homes of their own. To each of these testator had advanced the sum of $2,000, and had charged them each with…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Hoch's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1893
- Criswell's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1862
- Eby's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1865
- Porter's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1863
- Miller's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1860
3Cited by8 opinions
- Bowen's EstateSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1939
- Crittenden v. LytleSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1952
- Johnson v. ColerSupreme Court of Iowa · 1919
- Brooks v. ParksMichigan Supreme Court · 1915
- Baumann v. Baumann, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Wayne County1948
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