Wright's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 83, Jan. T., 1911, by S. Megargee Wright, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., July T., 1895, No. 104, dismissing petition to modify prior decree in Estate of John Wright, deceased. Petition to modify prior decree of the Orphans’ Court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was decree dismissing the petition.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Moschzisker,
In 1895 John Wright died testate, leaving to survive him one son, Samuel Megargee Wright. He devised his residuary estate to his executor, the Girard Trust Company, “In trust to collect and receive the rents and income of the real estate and the interest and dividends of the personal estate, and after deducting all expenses incident to the execution of the trust to pay the same in quarterly yearly payments to my son Samuel Megargee Wright for and during the full end and term of his natural life, in such way and manner that the same shall not be subject to or…
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- Carnegie EstatePennsylvania Orphans' Court, Allegheny County · 1950
- Messinger Estate, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Warren County1970
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