Welles's Estate

Citations

• 161 Pa. 218
• 28 A. 1116
• 1894 Pa. LEXIS 671

Syllabus

<p>Decedents' estates — Ancillary administration — Distribution of surplusage of personal estate.</p> <p>While the general rule requires that the surplusage of personal estate shall be remitted from the ancillary to the domiciliary jurisdiction for distribution, the court of the ancillary jurisdiction will not remit such surplusage where there are parties entitled to share in such property claiming distribution in the ancillary jurisdiction, and there are no domiciliary creditors.</p> <p>Intestate laws of Connecticut — Distribution.</p> <p>Under the laws of Connecticut, where a person dies intestate without leaving husband or wife, issue, parents, or brothers and sisters, “ the estate shall be distributed equally to the next of kin to the intestate of the blood of the person or ancestor from whom such estate came or descended.” Held (1) that the act applied to both real and personal estate; and (2) that a sale of inherited real estate by the intestate in his lifetime did not change the ancestral character of the estate or change the direction of its descent.</p>