Bailey's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 208, Jan. T., 1908, by H. H. Mercer, administrator, from decree of O. C. Lycoming Co., dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report in Estate of Harvey Bailey, deceased. Exceptions to report of B. S. Bentley, Esq., auditor. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. Errors assigned were in sustaining the bill of review and dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Fell,
The testator left the residue of his estate, after the payment of specific legacies, in trust to pay $300 of the annual income to his son, John C. Bailey for life, with the direction, if the income should be sufficient, to pay him annually the further sum of $100 ; and if it should not be sufficient to pay him $300 annually, that so much of the principal as should Tie necessary to make up the payment should be taken. The will further provides as follows: “ I authorize and empower and direct my said executors hereinafter named, if sickness or necessity shall overtake…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Appeal of PriestleySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1889
- Scott's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1886
- Green's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1868
- Milligan's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1877
- Naglee's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1866
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Reamer's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1938
- Bailey's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1927
- Troutman's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1921
- Duncan v. DuncanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1920
- In Re Estate of RoartSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1989
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