George Johnston's Estate

Pa.

Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Citations: 185 Pa. 179, 39 A. 879, 1898 Pa. LEXIS 690

Decision Date: 3/21/1898

Docket Number: Appeal, No. 50

Jurisdiction: PA

Bluebook Citation: George Johnston's Estate, 185 Pa. 179, 39 A. 879, 1898 Pa. LEXIS 690 (Pa. 1898)

More Cases: Pa. decisions from 1898


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Opinion

George Johnston’s Estate. Appeal of Robert C. Johnston, Trustee, Rebecca Beattie, James A. Beattie, Elizabeth Johnston, Robert C. Johnston, James Johnston and Robert C. Johnston and James A. Beattie, Executors of the Will of George Johnston, deceased.

Judges

  • Before Green, Williams, McCollum, Mitchell and Dean, JJ.

Attorneys

  • W. Bush Gillan, with him E. J. McQune, for appellants,
  • Waiter K. Sharpe, of Sharpe Sharpe, for appellee,
majority Per Curiam,

The very able and exhaustive opinion of the learned court below in this case is so full and complete, and evinces such a painstaking care in its preparation, and is so entirely satisfactory to us that we adopt it as the opinion of this Court, and on it we affirm the decree of the common pleas.

Decree affirmed and appeal dismissed at the cost of the appellants.

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