Meyer's Estate

Citations

• 232 Pa. 89
• 81 A. 145

Syllabus

<p>Husband and mfe — Estate by entireties — Act of June 8, 1893, P. L. 344 — Bankruptcy.</p> <p>1. The Act of June 8, 1893, P. L. 344, entitled, “An Act, relating to husband and wife, enlarging her capacity to acquire and dispose of property, to sue and be sued, and to make a last will, and enabling them to sue and testify against each other in certain cases,” does not change the nature of the wife’s estate nor destroy the legal unity of the relation between husband and wife, and consequently does not abolish an estate by entireties existing in a husband and wife.</p> <p>2. Where a testator gives his residuary estate to his daughter and her husband “absolutely and forever as tenants by entireties,” a trustee in bankruptcy of the husband is not entitled, during the life of the wife, to any part of the principal or income of the estáte.</p>