Estate of Heagy

Citations

• 4 Pa. Super. 493
• 1897 Pa. Super. LEXIS 151

Syllabus

<p>Wills — A legacy needs no consideration.</p> <p>A legacy needs no consideration to support it; it comes to its recipient through the mere grace of the giver.</p> <p>Will — Legacy—Invalid agreement may identify legatees.</p> <p>A married woman directed by her will that her property be sold and that the creditors of her husband as indicated by an invalid contract of suretyship executed by her in her lifetime be paid. Held, that the indicated creditors were entitled to participation in the distribution of her estate as beneficiaries under her will and that the invalid contract is only to be regarded as a means of identifying the objects of the testator’s bounty and the extent thereof.</p>