Estate of Hines
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal,’No. 18, Oct. T., 1898, by Elizabeth R. Hines, from decree of O. O. Phila. Co., Jan. T., 1897, No. 889, dismissing exceptions of Elizabeth R. Hines, thereto. Opinion by Rice, P. J. Petition for widow’s exemption. Before the court in banc. It appears from the record that the petitioner calling herself Laura B. Hines, the wife of Louis B. Hines, the decedent, who died intestate, filed a petition for widow’s exemption.
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Appeal,’No. 18, Oct. T., 1898, by Elizabeth R. Hines, from decree of O. O. Phila. Co., Jan. T., 1897, No. 889, dismissing exceptions of Elizabeth R. Hines, thereto. Opinion by Rice, P. J. Petition for widow’s exemption. Before the court in banc. It appears from the record that the petitioner calling herself Laura B. Hines, the wife of Louis B. Hines, the decedent, who died intestate, filed a petition for widow’s exemption. To the petition exceptions were filed on behalf of Elizabeth R. Hines, mother of decedent, as his heir and next of Mn, denying that the petitioner was the lawful wife of…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
This is an appeal from a decree allowing the petition of Laura Hines for the “ widow’s exemption.” The question raised by the exceptions, all of which were overruled,, is, whether the petitioner and the decedent were married. The learned judge *126of the court below has concisely stated the circumstances under which these parties came together, and their ostensible relations thereafter up to the time of the death of Louis B. Hines, as follows. He says: “ The petitioner, at the age of sixteen, made the acquaintance of the decedent while working along with him in his father’s…
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