Terppe's Estate

Citations

• 224 Pa. 482
• 73 A. 922
• 1909 Pa. LEXIS 828

Syllabus

<p>Will — Power of appointment — Exercise of power — Direction to pay debt — Devise.</p> <p>Where a widow having a life estate under her husband's will with testamentary power over the corpus of the estate, and also having a separate estate of her own, directs in the first clause of her will that all her debts should be paid, and devises in the residuary clause to an adopted son of her husband certain real estate which was a part of the estate of her husband, but charges it with incumbrances existing on it at the time of her death and with certain legacies left by her will, such real estate is not charged with the testatrix's own debts.</p>