Appeal of the Trustees of the University
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from a decree of the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia county: Of July Term 1880, No. 123. This was an appeal of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania from a decree of the said court dismissing their exceptions to, and confirming the adjudication of the judge auditing the first account of tho executors of Dr. George B. Wood, deceased. Two questions were raised by the record and assignments of error.
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Appeal from a decree of the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia county: Of July Term 1880, No. 123. This was an appeal of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania from a decree of the said court dismissing their exceptions to, and confirming the adjudication of the judge auditing the first account of tho executors of Dr. George B. Wood, deceased. Two questions were raised by the record and assignments of error. (1) Whether a certain annuity and a certain capital sum bequeathed by Dr. Wood to the Trustees of the University should abate pro rata, as legacies, with other pecuniary legacies, or…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Trunkey
Whether Dr. Wood was legally bound to pay the University of Pennsylvania the sum of $2500 annually, during his life, is unnecessary to determine. Did he contract for such payments to be made after his death? He proposed to appropriate out of his income the annual sum of $2500, to be applied by the trustees to the support of an auxiliary faculty of professors in the medical department, stating he did so with some diffidence, as he had no right to suppose that the board could “have so much confidence in his disinterestedness or stability of purpose, as to justify them in commencing an…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Towle v. SwaseyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1870
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