Bower's Estate

Citations

• 17 Pa. Super. 59
• 1901 Pa. Super. LEXIS 253

Syllabus

<p>Decedents' estates — Widow's exemption.</p> <p>Where a decedent dies on May 26, his will is probated on June 4, and the widow makes her demand for exemption on June 22, and nothing has been done in the mean time except to have the personal property appraised, the widow’s claim is not barred by laches.</p> <p>Where a widow makes her demand for exemption in time, and such demand has been disregarded, and all the personal property has been sold after such demand, and it appears that the real estate has been devised to the executors, the orphans’ court has jurisdiction over the claim, and while it will not award the widow an immediate payment in money, it will decree that the widow shall be paid the exemption, unless the executors shall in the mean time proceed to have an appraisement made in the mode provided by law.</p>