Cawley's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 89, July T., 1893, by Horace B. Cawley, from decree of O. C. Union Co., in estate of Mary Cawley, deceased. Rule on Horace B. Cawley to surrender to John Harrison Cawley, executor, bank stock. Before McClure, P. J. Respondent filed an answer in which he averred that John Harrison Cawley is not the executor of the last will and testament of the said Mary Cawley, deceased, and that this respondent is the executor of the last will and testament of said decedent.
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Appeal, No. 89, July T., 1893, by Horace B. Cawley, from decree of O. C. Union Co., in estate of Mary Cawley, deceased. Rule on Horace B. Cawley to surrender to John Harrison Cawley, executor, bank stock. Before McClure, P. J. Respondent filed an answer in which he averred that John Harrison Cawley is not the executor of the last will and testament of the said Mary Cawley, deceased, and that this respondent is the executor of the last will and testament of said decedent. That the paper purporting to be the last will and testament of said Mary Cawley, deceased, and dated Sept. 5, 1887, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Williams,
A connected statement of the facts relating to the two wills signed by Mary Cawley will reduce the ground of controversy in this case within very narrow limits. Benjamin and Mary Cawley were brother and sister. Both were unmarried. They had lived together for many years, and in 1886 were both aged and infirm. The house in which they lived belonged to Benjamin and was worth some three or four thousand dollars. Mary owned some bank stock amounting to near the same sum. Their furniture seems to have been owned in about equal parts by each of them. It is apparent…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Estate of CawleyPennsylvania Orphans' Court, Union County · 1890
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