Lafferty's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 169, Jan. T., 1910, by the Philadelphia Trust, Safe Deposit & Insurance Company, executors of Rose E. Carr, deceased, from decree of O. C. Philadelphia Co., Oct. T., 1886, No. 587, dismissing exceptions to adjudication in estate of Charles Lafferty, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. The facts appear in the opinion of the Supreme Court and in Lafferty’s Estate, 209 Pa. 44. Error assigned was in dismissing exceptions to adjudication.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Potter,
In Lafferty’s Estate, 209 Pa. 44, this court affirmed the *497decree of the orphans’ court, by which the share of the annuity to which under the will of her grandfather, Rose E. Carr would have been entitled if living, was awarded to her executor. That decision necessarily involved the determination of the question whether or not the will of Francis Lafferty was a valid exercise of the power of appointment given to him in the will of his father. After the lapse of some six years, precisely the same question, in the same estates, under the same wills, is again…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Marsh v. PierSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1833
- Bolton v. HeySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1895
- Bell v. County of AlleghenySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1898
- Pulaski AvenueSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1908
- Lafferty's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1904
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3Cited by19 opinions
- Gallagher v. SmithCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1955
- Reamer's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1938
- Estate Bernice P. BishopHawaii Supreme Court · 1943
- Havir's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1925
- McCoy v. KalbachSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1913
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