Whitaker's Estate

Citations

• 175 Pa. 139
• 34 A. 572
• 1896 Pa. LEXIS 1224

Syllabus

<p>Decedent's estate — Intestate laws — Representation among collaterals— Grandparents — Act of May 25, 1887.</p> <p>The act of May 25, 1887, P. L. 261, entitled “An act relating to the estates of intestates, providing that children and descendants of deceased grandparents shall represent such deceased grandparents whenever grandparents are entitled as next of kin to intestates,” did not repeal the general law of 1833 relating to representation among collaterals.</p> <p>The intention of the act of May 25,1887, P. L. 261, was to meet the case of McDowell v. Addams, 45 Pa. 430, where a living grandparent was held to take to the exclusion of the descendants of a dead one.</p>