Hammer's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 218, Oct. T., 1893, by-John C. Hammer et ah, executors of Solomon N. Hammer, deceased, from decree of O. C. Somerset Co., dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report distributing decedent’s estate. Distribution of decedent’s estate.
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Appeal, No. 218, Oct. T., 1893, by-John C. Hammer et ah, executors of Solomon N. Hammer, deceased, from decree of O. C. Somerset Co., dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report distributing decedent’s estate. Distribution of decedent’s estate. Before Longenecker, P. J. The case was referred to John G. Ogle, Esq., as auditor, who found that the real estate mentioned in the will was sold at public sale to R. F. Hammer for $1,835. Testator’s will was as follows : “ First my will is that all my just debts and funeral expenses and the executing of this my last will and testament by my executors…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
Solomon N. Hammer, the testator, died February 13, 1890, leaving six children, four sons, Joseph S., John C., David M. and Ross F., and two daughters, Mary Cauffield and Charlotte Livingston.
In his lifetime, he had conveyed to his two sons, John C. and David M., farms at a valuation, and had credited to each three thousand dollars on the purchase money as an advancement. At his death, he still owned the “ Gindlesperger farm,” for which he had paid, some thirty years before, twenty-five hundred dollars. This he had improved by building upon it a very substantial farm…
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