Estate of Dorscheimer

Citations

• 12 Pa. Super. 34
• 1899 Pa. Super. LEXIS 201

Syllabus

<p>Widow's exemption — Claim restricted as made.</p> <p>Where a widow designates in her claim the particular property which she elects to retain as her exemption she is restricted to the designation , thus made.</p> <p>A widow having claimed cash she may not wait until an estate has been converted and then claim out of a fund which did not exist before.</p> <p>Practice, O. C. — Modification of decree — Widow's exemption.</p> <p>A decree is properly modified when the attention of the court was not called in the first instance to the true state of the facts and was thus led to grant a widow’s petition for exemption, to be returned in cash which was largely the proceeds of the sale of personal chattels of decedent sold after the claim was made.</p>