Tibben's Estate

Citations

• 16 Pa. Super. 73
• 1901 Pa. Super. LEXIS 19

Syllabus

<p>Estate for life — Consumption of estate by life tenant — Distribution—Evidence.</p> <p>Testator by his will gave all his estate to his wife with power to sell real estate “and at her death should there be anything remaining ” then over. The only estate which the testator left, beyond what was required for funeral expenses and widow’s exemption, consisted of three lots, which the widow sold for $3,700. The widow survived her husband fifteen years. She had other resources than those derived from her husband, and the mortgages which she owned at her death were of different dates and for different sums than the dates of the sales, and the amounts of the purchase money, and they were given by other persons than the purchasers of the lots. Held, that the evidence was insufficient to show that the property left by the wife was any portion of her husband’s estate.</p>