Lightner's Appeal

Citations

• 57 Pa. Super. 469
• 1914 Pa. Super. LEXIS 220

Syllabus

<p>Will — Legacy—Charitable gift — Void gift — Codicil—Act of April 26, 1855, P. L. 828.</p> <p>Where a testatrix by a will executed more than a calendar month before her death, made bequests to individuals, and named a charitable institution as residuary legatee, and by a codicil executed within a calendar month prior to her death, reduced the bequests to individuals, and thereby increased the residue to the charity, the amount of such increase represented by the difference between the residuary estate given by the will, and the residuary estate given by the codicil is void under the Act of April 26, 1855, P. L. 328.</p>