Donaldson v. Pettit

Citations

• 31 Pa. Super. 567
• 1906 Pa. Super. LEXIS 260

Syllabus

<p>Will — Devise—Condition—Will speaking from death.</p> <p>. Where a widow devises land to her son with a limitation that if he should endeavor to collect any claim from the estate of his deceased father, the devise should fail, and the son in his mother’s lifetime does make a claim against his father’s estate, but without knowledge of the provision in his mother’s will, and the testatrix with knowledge that such claim was made makes no change in her will, the son takes his devise, notwithstanding the limitation.</p>