Losch's Estate

Citations

• 264 Pa. 58
• 107 A. 375
• 1919 Pa. LEXIS 591

Syllabus

<p>Will — Testamentary character of paper — Specific performance.</p> <p>It is not error for the orphans’ court to construe a paper as testamentary in character, and to refuse specifically to enforce it, where the writing states: “I will give my home......to” a woman named “for special favors and honest kind work and good service ......during the last three months and before, she shall have my home which I promised to her......for staying with me. to the end of my life. I order my executor......to sign said deed......and after my death to hand and deliver said deed to her.” In such a case what is to he done to make the writing effective, is to be done by the executor.</p>