Reich's Estate

Citations

• 247 Pa. 344
• 93 A. 507
• 1915 Pa. LEXIS 834

Syllabus

<p>Wills — Legacies—Husband and wife — Legacies to wife — Construction — Intention.</p> <p>Where a testator bequeathed his whole estate for the use of hia wife for life should she so long continue his widow and provided “Should she remarry, or at her death, I direct that all my real and personal effects whatsoever then remaining shall be sold......as soon as conveniently can be after such remarriage or death, and converted into money and the one-third of all such moneys should be set apart and paid to my said wife......the same to be in lieu of her dower at common law,” the gift to the wife was properly held to be an absolute interest in one-third of his estate only in the event of her remarriage; during her widowhood, the widow was entitled to the use of the income only and upon her death without having remarried her interest in her husband’s estate terminated.</p>