Hummel's Estate

Citations

• 161 Pa. 215
• 28 A. 1113
• 1894 Pa. LEXIS 670

Syllabus

<p>Decedents' estates — Fraud on righfs of wife — Voluntary bond.</p> <p>A voluntary bond payable at the maker’s death, given for the purpose of defrauding the maker’s wife of her rights in his estate, cannot be sustained, where the donee is a party to the fraud.</p> <p>Distribution — Marshaling assets.</p> <p>Where such a bond has -been given to a person who is neither a party nor a privy to the fraud, the bond will be paid out of the personal estate, but the widow is entitled to compensation against the heirs out of the real estate.</p>