Greenough v. Small

Citations

• 137 Pa. 128
• 20 A. 396
• 1890 Pa. LEXIS 961

Syllabus

<p>1. Where an offer of evidence embraces several distinct items and any one of them is incompetent, it is not error for the court to reject the whole offer; the trial judge may separate the wheat from the chaff, but he is not bound to do so.</p> <p>2. A will, devising real estate with a provision that the devisees may sell it at any time after the testator’s death, “ provided they mutually agree to the time of the sale,” the proceeds to be equally divided among the devisees, does not work a conversion of the realty devised.</p>