Legal Opinion

Black's Estate

Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County

Decided February 23, 1940No. 381 of 1937Published

1Opinion of the Court

Stearne, J.,

This litigation revolves around a finding of an auditor (appointed at the request of all parties) that decedent’s son accepted a bequest of a business, subject to the payment of decedent’s debts — also, concerning the auditor’s conclusions of law as to what debts of decedent are chargeable against the business. These disputes are between the son. and decedent’s widow.

The testamentary scheme is plain. The son is bequeathed the business, subject to the payment of all decedent’s debts. The residue (except the relatively minor bequests not in question) passed to the widow absolutely.

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2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. United Security Trust Company CaseSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1936
  2. Assigned Estate of Graff, Bennett & Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1891
  3. Estate of John HillSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1925
  4. Searight's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1894
  5. McKerrahan ex rel. Snowden v. Crawford's ExecutorsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1868

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