Glentworth's Estate

Citations

• 221 Pa. 329
• 70 A. 756
• 1908 Pa. LEXIS 486

Syllabus

<p>Will — Direction to sell real estate — Distribution under the intestate law— Conversion — Intention.</p> <p>Where a testatrix possessed of real estate ex parte paterna directs her executor to sell all of her real estate, and distribute the proceeds thereof to such persons as would be entitled thereto, under the intestate laws, and in another and separate clause of her will, gives and bequeaths her personal property to such persons as would be entitled under the intestate laws, the direction to sell the real estate does not work a conversion of it into personalty so as to change the course of inheritances.</p> <p>In such a case, the direction to sell was merely for convenience of distribution, and as conversion never operates except to carry out the intention of the testator, it could not in this case alter the course of inheritance.</p>