Rigg's Estate

Citations

• 48 Pa. Super. 402
• 1911 Pa. Super. LEXIS 397

Syllabus

<p>Decedents’ estates — Widow’s exemption — Practice, O. C.</p> <p>1. Where a hearing has been duly had on exceptions to an appraisement for a widow’s exemption, a decree of the orphans’ court refusing a rehearing will not be reversed where there is nothing on the record to show that such ground was laid for a rehearing as made it the imperative duty of a court to grant it; and where it is not made to appear to the appellate court that there was an abuse of discretion in refusing it.</p> <p>2. A decree of the orphans’ court refusing to cpnfirm a widow’s appraisement will nob be reversed where the court below in its opinion states that the appraisement was at unduly low and improper figures, and the widow makes no attempt to supply the evidence on the subject, which is alleged to have been lost and not sent up with the record.</p>