Carter's Estate

Citations

• 225 Pa. 355
• 74 A. 240
• 1909 Pa. LEXIS 663

Syllabus

<p>Will — Partition—Power of sale — Conversion—Trusts and trustees.</p> <p>1. Where a fee simple estate is vested in a legatee upon his reaching the age of twenty-one years such devisee on reaching his majority is entitled to partition, although the testator directed the trustee to divide the estate into several parts, and for the purpose of such division gave full power and authority to sell the real estate.</p> <p>2. The right to demand partition is not taken away by the fact that the will under which the person seeking partition claims the land directs the executor to make division of the estate.</p>