Kohler's Appeal

The facts fully appear in the opinion of the court, delivered

by Woodward, J.

This proceeding was instituted by bill or petition in the Orphans’ Court for the purpose of compelling Matilda Kohler (late Matilda Helfrich) to pay to Benjamin Helfrich a pecuniary legacy bequeathed to him by Peter Hehn, who, in the same will, devised a farm to Matilda, and charged it conditionally with the payment of this legacy and two others. The will directed the executors to pay the legacies out of the personal estate immediately after the death of the testator’s widow; but, “if there should not he so much over,…