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· 7/16/1913

Shaw's Estate

Citations

  • 54 Pa. Super. 444
  • 1913 Pa. Super. LEXIS 82

Syllabus

<p>Decedents’ estates — Husband and, wife — Neglect of husband to support wife — Exclusion of husband from sharing in wife’s estate — Act of May 4, 1855, P. L. 480.</p> <p>A finding by the orphans’ court that a husband through drunkenness had neglected to provide for his wife during the last year of her life, and that therefore he is properly excluded from sharing in her estate, will not be reversed by the appellate court where the evidence is sufficient to support the finding, and there is no manifest error.</p>

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

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