Henkel's Estate
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 64 and 65, April T., 1915, by Mary and Jacob Meyer, from decree of O. C. Allegheny Co., March T., 1914, No. 53, dismissing exceptions to adjudication in Estate of Lena Henkel, deceased. Exception to adjudication. Over, P. J., filed the following opinion: Lena Henkel died testate January 6, 1913, leaving to survive her a husband but no issue.
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Appeals, Nos. 64 and 65, April T., 1915, by Mary and Jacob Meyer, from decree of O. C. Allegheny Co., March T., 1914, No. 53, dismissing exceptions to adjudication in Estate of Lena Henkel, deceased. Exception to adjudication. Over, P. J., filed the following opinion: Lena Henkel died testate January 6, 1913, leaving to survive her a husband but no issue. They were married in May, 1891, she then being a widow without issue and he a widower having three children living, and he then received from her $900 of her money. In her will she gave all of her estate, except a legacy of $50.00, to a…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
This case is so well stated in the opinion filed by the learned president judge of the orphans’ court, that no good purpose would be subserved by attempting to restate it. The question is interesting, and a good deal can be said on both sides of it, but after full consideration of it we all concur in the conclusions reached by the orphans’ court, and for the reasons given in Judge Over’s opinion.
The decree is affirmed: costs of each appeal to be paid by the appellant.
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