Crawford's Estate
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Crawford's Estate, 17 Pa. Super. 170 (1901)
1901 Pa. Super. LEXIS 272
Beaver, Orlady, Porter, Rice
Crawford's Estate
Opinion of the Court
The able argument of the appellant’s counsel has failed to convince us that the court below committed error in the decision of either of the three questions presented for our consideration. The correctness of the conclusions reached is so fully vindicated in the auditor’s report and the opinion of the court overruling the exceptions thereto, as to render further discussion by us unnecessary.
The decree is affirmed and appeal dismissed at the cost of the appellant.
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- Will — Life estate — Remainder—Distribution. Testator gave money legacies and a share in his residuary estate to his sons and daughters. These gifts were absolute, except as to his daughter E. He directed that her share should be held by his executors for the use of E. to pay over to her the interest and to invest the principal. He further directed as follows: “Should E. die without lawful issue, her share held in trust by my executors shall then be equally divided between her brothers and sisters or their lawful heirs, share and share alike.” Held, (1) that E. took a life estate only; (2) that the remainder vested in her brothers and sisters at the death of the testator; (3) that the distribution should be per stirpes amongst the representatives of the brothers and sisters, all of whom were deceased at the death of E.