Appeal of Jackson
Appeal of Jackson
Opinion of the Court
We think the Orphans’Court was clearly right in holding wxv^v, was not entitled to one half of the residue of the personal property undisposed of by the testator. The widow having died a few days after the testator, and having made no election, we must presume she takes under the will. The will gave her the full one third of all the estate of the testator, during her life. There was no intestacy of any portion of the estate, as to her. She gets the one third of it all, in-
The decree is affirmed and the appeal dismissed at the costs 'of the appellant.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- APPEAL OF E. V. JACKSON, ADMR. [Estate of Charles Barry, Deceased.]
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- Syllabus
- (a) The will of a testator devised and bequeathed to Ms widow in lieu of her dower, if she should so elect, the one equal third part of all his estate, real and personal, during her natural life, but made no disposition of the two thirds of his estate. 1. In such case, as the will gave to the widow the full one third of all the estate, during her life, there was no intestacy as to any portion of it as to her, and, dying- without having elected to take against the will, her administrator was entitled to no part of the undisposed of portion: Car-man’s App., 2 Penny. 332, and Reed’s Est., 82 Pa. 428, distinguished.