HomeMy WebLinkAbout08-13-12IN RE: ESTATE OF
SARAH MCCREA CHAPMAN
JONES, LATE OF LOWER
MIFFLIN TOWNSHIP,
CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PA
DECEASED
IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF
CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
ORPHANS COURT DIVISION
N0.21-09-0329
STATEMENT OF MATTERS COMPLAINED OF ON APPEAL
Appellant John McCrea files the following Statement of Matters Complained of
on Appeal, pursuant to the Order of Judge Kenneth A. Mummah, dated July 9. 2012 filed
with the Clerk of the Orphans Court on July 13, 2012, and received by Appellant John
McCrea on July 17, 2012, via the United States Postal Service:
1. The Court ignored and disregarded the clear testamentary intent expressed in
the document creating the Chapman Lodge trust that, when the interest of
Alfred Chapman in the trust property should terminate, the property should be
distributed to his three children as joint life tenants.
2. The Court essentially caused a forfeiture of the life estate interests of Alfred
Chapman's children without any legal basis for that forfeiture and without any
factual basis for that forfeiture, when it entered an Order calling for
distribution of the trust property to the residuary beneficiary of the trust, St.
John Episcopal Church.
3. The Court, without any legal basis or factual basis of record, failed to award
the children of Alfred Chapman joint life estates in the Chapman Lodge trust
property, and instead illegally called for the distribution of the Chapman
Lodge property to the residuary beneficiary of the trust, St. Johns~Fpiscopal e.~,
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The transcript of lower court proceedings which may be necessary for appellate
purposes is the transcript of the hearing held before Judge Kenneth A. Mummah
on August 25, 2012, up to the point in the hearing held on said date when the
Court closed the record on matters having to do with the termination of the
Chapman Lodge trust.
Jo cCrea
PO Box 341
Newville, PA 17241
717.776.6656