Estate of Martin

Citations

• 181 Pa. 378
• 37 A. 561
• 1897 Pa. LEXIS 554

Syllabus

<p>Husband and wife — Evidence—Decedent's estate.</p> <p>Where a husband buys real estate and takes title in his own name, the legal presumption is that he furnished the money, and where his widow claims that the property was bought with money loaned to him by her from her separate estate, the burden of establishing the loan and of overcoming the presumption in favor of her husband is on her; and where it appears that she had no separate estate, it cannot be done by merely proving the husband’s declarations which are wanting in details, dates and amounts: Young’s Est., 65 Pa. 101, distinguished.</p>