Seip's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 118, July T., 1893, from decree of O. C. Lehigh Co., distributing decedent’s estate. Exceptions to auditor’s report. Before Albright, P. J. The auditor, E. J. Litehtenwalner, Esq., found among others the following facts: “ George Probst, of the city of Allentown, in said county, died on or about February, 1885, testate.
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Appeal, No. 118, July T., 1893, from decree of O. C. Lehigh Co., distributing decedent’s estate. Exceptions to auditor’s report. Before Albright, P. J. The auditor, E. J. Litehtenwalner, Esq., found among others the following facts: “ George Probst, of the city of Allentown, in said county, died on or about February, 1885, testate. Christiana Knauss, Catharine Seip and Lydia Probst were half-sisters of the said George Probst, and 'the only half-sisters of George Probst' then living. The will of George Probst was probated by the register of wills of Lehigh county. After the will was probated,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mu. Justice Williams,
The facts to be considered in the determination of this appeal appear in the auditor’s report, which was concurred in and confirmed by the orphans’ court.
From, this report we learn that George Probst died testate in February, 1885, leaving a large estate. He left three half-sisters to survive him, Christiana Knauss, Catharine Seip and Lydia Probst. By his will he gave his estate to certain of his collateral relatives excluding his half-sisters, and other relatives, from any share whatever therein.
Those who had been excluded, or some of them, determined to…
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