DeWitt v. DeWitt

Citations

• 202 Pa. 255
• 51 A. 987
• 1902 Pa. LEXIS 502

Syllabus

<p>Dower — Substitution of property — Account of rents.</p> <p>A widow in her bill for an account of the rents, issues and profits of the real estate of her deceased husband, and for the assignment of her dower, lias a right to include property of which her husband had not died seized, but which had been conveyed to his estate years after his death in consideration of “ other property deeded” to the grantors.</p> <p>Principal and agent — Estoppel—Widow—Decedent's estates.</p> <p>Where a widow permits her son as her agent to collect rents, issues and profits accruing to her from her husband’s estate, she cannot repudiate her son’s agency after his death, and after she discovers that he has squandered or misappropriated what he had collected.</p> <p>Appeals — Auditor's findings of fact.</p> <p>On a bill by a widow for an account of rents, a failure of the master and court below to find as a fact the only thing that could have been found •from the admissions of the widow, will be corrected by the appellate court.</p>