Estate of Moneypenny
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 605, Jan. T., 1896, from decree.of O. C. Wyoming Co., auditor’s report book No. 3, page 431, overruling exceptions to auditor’s report. Exceptions to auditor’s report distributing the fund upon final account of the executor of decedent’s estate. Before Dunham, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Mrrors assigned were in overruling exceptions to auditor’s report.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Mitchell,
The decedent died in 1884, and in the same year an appraiser was appointed and the collateral inheritance tax on personal property assessed and paid. Nearly twelve years afterwards a new appraiser was appointed by the register of wills, and made an appraisement of the proceeds of real estate in the city of New York which had been sold by the executors under the directions of the will, upon the expiration of certain life estates. The ground of this second appraisement was that the New York land had been converted into personalty by the testator’s direction to…
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