Downer's Estate

Citations

• 245 Pa. 580
• 91 A. 943
• 1914 Pa. LEXIS 923

Syllabus

<p>. Wills — Construction*-Intention—Equitable conversion — Next of Jcín.</p> <p>Where a testatrix, after making a specified bequest, appoints an executor “with power to sell as he may think best any realty of which I may die seized, to execute deeds therefor, and to make distribution of the proceeds thereof as personalty, and of all personalty of which I may die possessed to those legally entitled thereto -according to the intestate laws of the State of PennsylTania,” the will works an equitable conversion and the court does not err in decreeing a distribution of the property as personalty to the next of kin.</p>