Spencer's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jan. T., 1909, by Jennie Bowie, from decree of O. C. Lackawanna Co., 1904, No. 216, setting aside a contract of sale of real estate in Estate of Harriet Amanda Spencer, deceased. Rule to show cause why a contract of sale of real estate should not be set aside. Before Sando, P. J. The facts appear in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was decree setting aside the contract.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Mestrezat,
March 14, 1910:
J. W. Hull and Dan Hull, surviving executors of the last will of Harriet Amanda Spencer, presented their petition to the orphans’ court of Lackawanna county averring, inter alia: that the testatrix died March 28, 1901, leaving a will which was duly probated on May 6, 1904; that she devised her real estate to her husband George Spehcer, her brother, J. Wesley Hull and his son, Dan Hull, in trust for various purposes set forth in the will; that said parties were also named as executors of the will; that George Spencer entered into a written…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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