Appeal of Mellon
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Allegheny county: Of October Term 1886, No. 144. In the court below these were the appeals: Appeals of Mary F. Beatty, A. Dempster, John S. Wilson, Isabella C. Sargent, George R. Stewart, Seth.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Allegheny county: Of October Term 1886, No. 144. In the court below these were the appeals: Appeals of Mary F. Beatty, A. Dempster, John S. Wilson, Isabella C. Sargent, George R. Stewart, Seth. F. Stewart, Mary M. Stewart, B.' L. H. Dabbs, Celina Wilson, S. M. Hawksworth, Benjamin H. Peabody, E. M. Bigelow, Mary C. Bigelow, T. S. Bigelow, Robert Thomson, Robert E. Stewart, James R. Mellon (ei al.~), James E. Rogers,Eliza Russell, Catherine McAfee, Elizabeth Rheem, Jennie Addy, Elizabeth J. Baird, B. L. Wood, Jr., R. F. Bialas, and Harriet L. Rook, from the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
The facts which constitute the basis of this contention are so clearly and fully stated by the learned judge of the Orphans’ Court, that nothing more than a brief outline thereof, and reference to some of the provisions of our collateral inheritance law, is necessary to a proper understanding of the question involved.
In 1849, Isabella M-» wife of Dr. R. C. Beatty, died intestate, seized of 57 acres of land, now in the city of Pittsburgh, leaving as her only heirs at law her husband and three minor children, viz: Annie B., Robley D. and Bell C. Beatty. The land of course descended to the…
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