Simes' Appeal

Decided January 23, 1888

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1888-01-23

January Term, 1887, No. 292, E. D., Appeal of J ames B. Simes from a decree of the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia County sustaining the exceptions to the adjudication of the account of the trustees… Held: on the ground that the charges created by the will were disproportioned to the fund embraced in that schedule, that schedule five had been intended; and the will was reformed accordingly. This case is only one of a multitude.

Affirmed · Decided 1888-01-23

Per Curiam :

¶1The controversy concerning the construction of the will of Samuel Simes has been so clearly and well disposed of in the court below that we can do nothing better than concur in the disposition thus made.

¶2The decree is affirmed and the appeal dismissed, at the costs of the appellant.