Prevost's Estate

Citations

• 264 Pa. 27
• 107 A. 388
• 1919 Pa. LEXIS 583

Syllabus

<p>Will — Construction—Codicil reducing legacies — Absolute or conditional.</p> <p>The reduction of a legacy given in a will by a codicil providing “in order to avoid a possible deficiency, which may grow out of the shrinking of investments, I reduce some of the legacies in my will as follows,” with a further provision that where legacies were reduced the will should read as though the reduced sum had been in the first instance provided for, is absolute, and not merely conditional upon a shrinkage of assets so as to render the estate insufficient. to pay the legacies in full.</p>