Case ID: pa_191/html/0068-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Chief Justice Sterrett,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Estate of Samuel W. Bell, deceased. Appeal of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
    Argued Jan. 24, 1898.
    Appeal, No. 464, Jan. T., 1897, by commonwealth of Pennsylvania, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., April T., 1897, No. , dismissing exceptions to adjudication.
    Before Sterrett, C. J., Green, Williams, McCollum, Mitchell, Dean and Fell, JJ.
    Affirmed.
    
      Francis A. Osbourn, John O. Grady, John P. Elkin and Henry Q. Me Üormick, attorney general, for appellant.
    
      Rowland Evans and R. L. Ashhurst, for appellees.
    April 24, 1899:
   Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Sterrett,

This and three other cases, involving substantially the same questions, were argued with Commonwealth’s Appeal, Portuondo’s Estate, No. 440, January term, 1897, in which an opinion has just been filed, holding that the act of May 12,1897, is unconstitutional, etc., ante, p. 28.

For reasons given in that opinion, the decree of the court below must be sustained. "

Decree affirmed and appeal dismissed at appellant’s costs.