Helsel's Estate

Citations

• 255 Pa. 612
• 100 A. 462
• 1917 Pa. LEXIS 503

Syllabus

<p>Beal estate — Conversion—Option.</p> <p>1. Where the owner of land granted an option to purchase which was exercised by the optionee in the owner’s lifetime but the owner died before the conveyance of the property or the payment of the purchase-money, there was nevertheless a conversion of the estate and the decedent’s administratrix was properly surcharged with the amount of the purchase-money, although the deeds were exer cuted by the widow and heirs of the decedent and the consideration was paid to them.</p> <p>Practice, Supreme Court — Appeals—Objections to evidence.</p> <p>2. An appellant will not be heard to complain of the inadmissibility of evidence where no exception was taken to the admisssion of such evidence in the lower court.</p>