Blick v. Cockins
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 15, Oct. T., 1911, by plaintiffs from decree of C. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co Oct. T., 1909, No. 1139, dismissing bill in equity in case of Adelaide Miller Blick and Horace J. Miller v. James M. Cockins et al. Bill in equity to declare a trust ex maleficio. Before Si-iafer, J. The facts appear in the opinion of the Supreme Court and in Miller v. Cockins, 231 Pa. 449. Error assigned among others was decree dismissing bill.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Stewart,
This was a proceeding by bill in equity to have a trust ex maleficio declared in the defendant, James M. Cockins, with respect to property bequeathed and devised to him by the last will of his wife, Mariana M. Cockins, the averment being that the testatrix yielding to the persecution and studied insistence of her husband made her will devising her entire estate *264to her husband, only, however, upon his promise that he would hold the property so given him for and during his life, and would see to it that at his death the property should be divided between the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Hoffner's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1894
- Jones v. McKeeSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1846
- Miller v. CockinsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1911
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- Miller v. CockinsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1913
- A. B. Dick Co. v. Third National Bank, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Alleghany County1931
- Haftman EstatePennsylvania Orphans' Court, Washington County · 1962
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