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· 9/22/1980

Estate of Houston

Citations

  • 421 A.2d 166
  • 491 Pa. 339
  • 1980 Pa. LEXIS 786

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that language in will directing distribution to “such of my grandchildren as may be living at the time of my death” unequivocally excluded afterborn grandchildren
  • “No will has a brother, declared Sir William Jones.... Each will is its own best interpreter, and a construction of one is no certain guide to the meaning of another.”

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Judges: Roberts, Eagen

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