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· 2/20/1914

Gaines's Estate

Citations

  • 56 Pa. Super. 118
  • 1914 Pa. Super. LEXIS 55

Syllabus

<p>Executors and administrators — Husband and wife — Renunciation by husband — Nominee of husband — Nonresident.</p> <p>Where a creditor of a married woman has been appointed her administrator, such appointment will not be vacated, and the husband of the decedent or his appointee be granted letters, where it appears that the husband had renounced and had not subsequently withdrawn his renunciation, that the husband had lived most of the time away from his wife, and bigamously married another woman, and that his nominee was a nonresident who had been selected by representatives of a railroad company against which a suit was pending for injuries sustained by the decedent.</p>

Judges: Head, Henderson, Morrison, Orlady, Porter, Rice

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