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· 11/10/1890

Swan v. Covert

Citations

  • 138 Pa. 306
  • 22 A. 28
  • 1890 Pa. LEXIS 1273

Syllabus

<p>(a) A will provided : “If any interest that I may have in the Green Tree farm remains unsold at my death, I hereby authorize and empower my executor to join in the sale of any such land unsold, giving my said executor full power and authority to join in making deed or deeds for the same:</p> <p>1. Although, after the date of the will and before the testator’s death, his undivided interest as a tenant in common of the Green Tree farm was set apart to him in severalty under proceedings in partition, his executors had power to sell and convey such interest remaining unsold at his death.</p>

Judges: Collum, Green, Mitchell, Paxson, Peb, Sterrett, Williams

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