Donnelly's Estate

Citations

• 54 Pa. Super. 117
• 1913 Pa. Super. LEXIS 22

Syllabus

<p>Will — Conditional legacy — Duty to educate and maintain minor— Discretion of orphans’ court. .</p> <p>Where a testator has given the bulk of his estate t.o one of his sons with an obligation “to educate and maintain” any other of the testator’s children until they reach their majority, and the orphans’ court fixes the amount of the annual allowance for the education and maintenance of one of the testator’s minor sons, the appellate court will not review the discretion of the lower court, if it appears that the latter court in making its decree took into consideration all of the conditions and circumstances of the testator’s estate, and was not guilty of any manifest abuse of discretion.</p>