Case Name: Estate of Mary Grant Smith. Appeal of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1899-04-24
Citations: 191 Pa. 67
Docket Number: Appeal, No. 463
Parties: Estate of Mary Grant Smith. Appeal of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Judges: Before Stebbett, C. J., Gbeen, Williams, McCollum, Mitchell, Dean and Fell, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania State Reports
Volume: 191
Pages: 67–67

Head Matter:
Estate of Mary Grant Smith. Appeal of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Argued Jan. 24, 1898.
Appeal, No. 463, Jan. T., 1897, by commonwealth of Pennsylvania, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., April T., 1897, No. , dismissing exceptions to adjudication.
Before Stebbett, C. J., Gbeen, Williams, McCollum, Mitchell, Dean and Fell, JJ.
Affirmed.
Frauds A. Osbourn, John O. Gf-rady, John P. Elkin and Henry O. MeOormick, attorney general, for appellants.
Rowland Evans and R. L. Ashhurst, for appellees.
April 24, 1899:

Opinion:
Opinion by
Mb. Chief Justice Stebbett,
This and three other cases involving substantially the same questions were argued at last term with Commonwealth's Appeal, Portuondo's Estate, No. 440, January term, 1897, in which an opinion has just been filed deciding the act of May 12, 1897, unconstitutional, etc., ante, p. 28.
For reasons given in that opinion the decree of the court be low in this case must be affirmed.
Decree affirmed and appeal dismissed at appellant's costs.