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· 1/6/1908

Lynch's Estate

Citations

  • 220 Pa. 14
  • 69 A. 290
  • 1908 Pa. LEXIS 720

Syllabus

<p>Deed — Consideration—Natural love and affection — Gift—Blood of the ancestor — Intestate law.</p> <p>A deed conveying valuable real estate from a mother to a daughter for the consideration of “one dollar (as well as in consideration of natural love and affection) ” is to be construed as a gift, and not as a bargain and sale; and if the daughter dies intestate the property will go to the next of kin on her mother's side to the exclusion of her father's relatives.</p>

Judges: Brown, Elkin, Fell, Mestrezat, Mitchell, Potter, Stewart

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