Filbert's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 304, Jan. T., 1899, by Adelaide Filbert Geiser, from decree of O. C. Franklin Co., in partition proceedings in the matter of the Estate of Thomas J. Filbert, Sr., Deceased. Petition for partition.
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Appeal, No. 304, Jan. T., 1899, by Adelaide Filbert Geiser, from decree of O. C. Franklin Co., in partition proceedings in the matter of the Estate of Thomas J. Filbert, Sr., Deceased. Petition for partition. From the record it appeared that Thomas J. Filbert, Sr., died on July 17, 1878, leaving to survive him his widow, Emma S. Filbert, a daughter, Adelaide S. Filbert, the appellant, and a number of grandchildren, who were children of his deceased son, Thomas J. Filbert, Jr. By his will he gave a dwelling house and lot of ground to his widow “ so long as she shall remain my widow.” After…
1Opinion of the Court
Pee Cueiam,
The estate which was given to the widow in the land in question, was a life estate only, terminable at her death or remarriage. There was no devise over of this real estate of any kind after the determination of the estate of the widow. There were other provisions as to what should be done with it in the event of several designated contingencies, none of which ever happened. As to those contingencies therefore it was as if they had never been written in the will. The first of these contingencies was the marriage or death of the testator’s wife before his daughter Adelaide became of…
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