Fidelity Trust Co. v. Cook

Citations

• 25 Pa. Super. 142
• 1904 Pa. Super. LEXIS 28

Syllabus

<p>Landlord and tenant — Distress—Decedent’s estates — Custody of law.</p> <p>Where a testatrix who had no debts makes a specific bequest of the furniture in a leased house in which he lived to one of the daughters, and the children of decedent and an aunt continued to live in the house after decedent’s death under an arrangement by which the aunt was to pay the rent from funds derived from the shares of the children, the landlord may distrain on the furniture for rent which accrued more than a year after the death of the decedent. The furniture in such a case cannot be said to be in the custody of the law.</p>