Stevens's Estate

Citations

• 164 Pa. 209
• 30 A. 243
• 1894 Pa. LEXIS 1060

Syllabus

<p>Will—Devise— Gharily.</p> <p>Testator gave a life estate to bis nephew with a direction that if his nephew abstained from intoxicating liquors for a certain period he should take a fee in the estate. He then provided as follows: “If the life estate of my nephew should'expire before he has enabled himself to become entitled to the corpus, or fee. simple, of my estate, then I dispose of whatever may remain as follows: If the aggregate sum shall then amount to fifty thousand dollars without which no further disposition can be made, I give it all to my trustees to erect, establish, and endow a house of refuge for the relief of the homeless indigent orphans. ... I desire twenty thousand dollars to be expended in erecting suitable buildings. The residue to be secured in government securities.” Belcl, that the gift to the charity was absolute, and not merely contingent upon the estate amounting to $50,000 at the time of the death of the nephew. If the estate did not amount to $50,000 at the nephew’s death, the trustees were to wait until it reached that amount before entering upon their work.</p>