Wright's Estate

Citations

• 68 Pa. Super. 177
• 1917 Pa. Super. LEXIS 95

Syllabus

<p>Wills — Gonsiruction—Codicils—Goniingeni remainder— Nature of codicil and later will.</p> <p>A later will works essentially a revocation, while a codicil is a confirmation of the will, except as to the express alterations which it may contain. Notwithstanding a codicil, the provisions of the will are to stand, unless in order to effect the purposes of the codicil, it is absolutely necessary that the provisions of the will shall give way.</p> <p>Where a provision of a will contains a bequest to religious and benevolent institutions of a contingent remainder in the principal of a trust fund created by the will, and thereafter the testator executes a complicated series of eleven codicils, and in a number of the codicils he deals with, modifies and changes certain of the provisions relating to the trust fund created by the will, the court will not strike down the contingent remainders to the charities, where there is nothing in the codicils to indicate directly, or by clear implication, that it was the intention of the testator to revoke such contingent bequests.</p>