Jeanes' Estate

Citations

• 228 Pa. 537
• 77 A. 824
• 1910 Pa. LEXIS 522

Syllabus

<p>Wills — Charitable bequests — Attesting witness — Disqualifying interest —Act of April 86,1856, P. L. 388.</p> <p>1. Interest which under the act of 1855 disqualifies a witness from attesting a will containing religious or charitable bequests must be a present, certain and vested one. It must not be uncertain, remote or contingent.</p> <p>2. An attesting witness to a will is not so interested as to be disqualified under the act of 1855 because the testatrix directs a company, of which the witness is a stockholder and vice president, to pay the dividends on certain shares of its stock to a charity, upon the latter’s fulfilling certain conditions.</p>