Miles' Estate
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Miles' Estate, 66 Pa. Super. 115 (1917)
1917 Pa. Super. LEXIS 205
Head, Henderson, Kephart, Orlady, Porter, Trexler, Williams
Miles' Estate
Opinion of the Court
The question involved in this appeal is so accurately disposed of in the opinion of the Orphans’ Court in overruling the exceptions that were filed to the adjudication, that it is not necessary to again consider them.
To the authorities therein cited may be added Commonwealth v. Force, 43 Pa. Superior Ct. 364; Briggs v. East Broadtop R. R., Etc., 206 Pa. 564; Murphy v. McMullin, 219 Pa. 506.
The decree is affirmed.
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- Life tenant — Remainderman—Agreement as to improvements. Where a person having a life tenancy in unimproved real estate delivers an interest-bearing bond to the remainderman under an agreement in writing hy which the latter is to use “the value and proceeds in full,” of the bond to improve the property for the purposes of securing income, and the remainderman proceeds with the improvements, spending out of her own money thereon more than four times the amount contributed by the life tenant, the remainderman is entitled after the death of the life tenant to a decree against his administratrix to compel her to execute an assignment of the bond.