Appeal of Drennan

Citations

• 118 Pa. 176
• 20 W.N.C. 522
• 12 A. 348
• 1888 Pa. LEXIS 380

Syllabus

<p>A testator’s will gave to Ms wife and son all Ms real estate and personal property thereon during Ms wife’s natural life, “by their complying” with certain bequests to his daughters. At the decease of his wife, a part of the real estate was given to the son, the other part to the daughters: Held.</p> <p>1. That the will disposing fully of all the estate except the personal property, some of which was consumable in its nature, with no bequest over of any of it, the gift of the personalty to the wife and son was absolute.</p> <p>2. The Supreme Court shall in all cases of appeal from the definitive sentence or decree of the Orphans’ Court, hear and determine the same as to right and justice may belong-: § 4, act April 14, 1835, P. L. 275.</p>