Gorgas' Estate

Citations

• 248 Pa. 343
• 93 A. 1073
• 1915 Pa. LEXIS 574

Syllabus

<p>Wills — Lapsed legacies — Residue—Intestacy as to residue.</p> <p>Where testator died unmarried, leaving to survive him an only child, and by bis will gave her a life estate with remainder to her children, and provided further that if she should leave no children the remainder should go to testator’s brothers and sisters living, and the “issue” of such as might he dead, and the daughter died childless and unmarried and all of the brothers and sisters of the testator predeceased her, none of them leaving issue, there was ,an intestacy as to the residue of the estate relating back to testator’s death, and the residuary fund was properly awarded to the personal representatives of testator’s only child to the exclusion of the next of kin of testator’s brothers and sisters.</p>