Muderspaugh's Estate

Citations

• 231 Pa. 376
• 80 A. 870
• 1911 Pa. LEXIS 851

Syllabus

<p>■ Wills — Power of sale — Partial conversion — Failure of purpose.</p> <p>Where a testator has by will directed a sale of his real estate for the specific purpose of producing a fund to pay charitable bequests named, a part of the fund intended for a bequest which fails, goes to the heirs at law as real estate, and not to the next of kin as personal property, and this is the case although the real estate was actually sold.</p>