In re Account of the of Jamison

Citations

• 183 Pa. 219
• 38 A. 604
• 1897 Pa. LEXIS 743

Syllabus

<p>Husband and wife — Loan by wife to husband — Evidence.</p> <p>Where the orphans’ court, sustaining the report oi an auditor, awards a share of a decedent’s estate to the wife of a son of the decedent, as against creditors of the son, the Supreme Court will not reverse the decree where there is evidence sufficient to show that the wife had a separate estate of her own; that she had loaned a sum of money to her husband which, with interest, amounted to the sum awarded to her, and that on the day after the decedent’s death the husband, in good faith, assigned to his wife his share of his father’s estate.</p>