Estate of McConnell

Citations

• 5 Pa. Super. 120
• 1897 Pa. Super. LEXIS 200

Syllabus

<p>Decedent's estate — Distribution—Collateral heirs — Statutes.</p> <p>The Act of April 27, 1855, P. L. 368, constituted the grandchildren of brothers and sisters and the children of uncles and aunts additional classes of collateral heirs as distinguished from next of kin, and as to these two classes made the rule of distribution per stirpes; the purpose of the Act of June 30, 1885, P. L. 251 is to provide for a per capita distribution where the distributees stand in the same degree of consanguinity to the intestate, and therefore repeals the act of 1855 only so far as it prescribes the mode of distribution in such case, but does not repeal or modify the act so far as it creates new classes of collaterals.</p>