Marshall's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 22, Jan. T., 1918, by Juliette Marshall, from decree of O. C. Erie Co'., May T., 1917, No. 103, dismissing petition for a citation to show cause why an executor should not pay a pecuniary legacy to petitioner, in Estate of James C. Marshall, deceased. Petition for a citation. Before Rossiter, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court dismissed the petition. Petitioner appealed. Error assigned was the decree of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Me. Chief Justice Brown,
James C. Marshall, who died May 5,1886, directed by the sixth paragraph of his will that out of his personal estate and the proceeds of the sale of his real estate there be held in trust a fund sufficient to yield an annual income of $3,960, to be paid in unequal proportions to three children and-a grandchild. One of the children was a son James, and the direction of the testator was: “At the death of my son, James Marshall, twenty thousand dollars of the principal sum to be paid to his children, being my grandchildren, six thousand dollars to William J.…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Carstensen's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1900
- Neel's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1916
- McCauley's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1917
- Tatham's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1915
- McClure's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1873
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3Cited by28 opinions
- Groninger's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1920
- Lilley's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1922
- Riverside Trust Co. v. TwitchellSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1941
- Rickenbach EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1943
- Brown's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1927
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