Keene's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 270, Jan. T., 1907, by Eli Kirk Price, Executor of Ellen Mitchell, deceased, and the Keene Home, residuary legatee under her will, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., Jan. T., 1882, No. 304, dismissing exceptions to adjudication in Estate of Sarah Lukens Keene, deceased. Exception to adjudication.
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Appeal, No. 270, Jan. T., 1907, by Eli Kirk Price, Executor of Ellen Mitchell, deceased, and the Keene Home, residuary legatee under her will, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., Jan. T., 1882, No. 304, dismissing exceptions to adjudication in Estate of Sarah Lukens Keene, deceased. Exception to adjudication. From the adjudication it appeared that the testatrix died May 11, 1866, leaving a will dated November 18, 1843, duly probated, whereby, after making certain specific bequests to her niece, Ellen Keene (afterwards the wife of Dr. S. B. Wylie Mitchell), she provided as follows: “ I also…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Elkin,
In 1843, Sarah Lukens Keene, an intelligent and discriminating person, being possessed of an ample fortune, made a will, wrote it herself, disposing of her estate, consisting of real and personal property. She died in 1866, and her- will was in due time admitted to probate. It has been the cause of much litigation as will appear by reference to our own cases, which show that in one form and another questions involving the real or supposed rights of persons directly or contingently interested in its provisions have arisen in three different proceedings. It was…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Austin Keene's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1870
- McNally v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1901
- Keene's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1869
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- Drennen EstatePennsylvania Orphans' Court, Delaware County · 1948
- Hartz's EstatePennsylvania Orphans' Court, Berks County · 1927
- Shaffer v. Hummel, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Schuylkill County1930