Estate of Bittinger
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY THE COMMONWEALTH FROM THE ORPHANS' COURT OF ADAMS COUNTY. No. 38 May Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, number and term not given.
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APPEAL BY THE COMMONWEALTH FROM THE ORPHANS' COURT OF ADAMS COUNTY. No. 38 May Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, number and term not given. On July 14, 1888, a supplementary appraisement in the estate of William Bittinger, deceased, was filed in the office of the register of wills, valuing for purposes of taxation, under the collateral inheritance tax laws, certain real estate in Frederick county, Maryland, which had been devised by the will of said deceased to the trustees of Pennsylvania College of Gettysburg, in the county of Adams, a corporation of this state. On June 20, 1888, the said…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mb. Chief Justice Paxson:. The facts of this case, as we gather them from the paper books, are substantially as follows:
William Bittinger resided in Adams county, Pennsylvania, and died there March 3, 1888, testate. He left a widow, but no children. His will was made October 6,1886, and probated by the register of wills of Adams county, March 9, 1888. He died seised of a farm and mill property, situated in Frederick county, Maryland, which by his will, he devised to the corporation of “ The Trustees of Pennsylvania College of Gettysburg, in the county of Adams.” The college accepted…
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