Kortright's Estate

Citations

• 237 Pa. 138
• 85 A. 109

Syllabus

<p>Decedents’ estates — Testamentary expenses — English estate— Duty — English and American wills.</p> <p>Where a woman domiciled in England dies possessed of personal property both in England and Pennsylvania, and leaves two wills in one of which she disposes of her Pennsylvania property, and in the other of her English property, and in the latter directs that out of the proceeds of her English property there shall be paid “funeral and testamentary expenses and debts in England, and the legacies......and the duty on all legacies......bequeathed free of duty,” the “estate duty” payable to the British Government under the British Finance Act of 1894, 57-58 Yict. ch. 30, comes under the head of testamentary expenses and is payable out of the proceeds of the English property alone to the exoneration of the Pennsylvania estate.</p>