Fetrow's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of York county: Of May Term 1868. This appeal arose upon the distribution of the estate of Joshua Eetrow, deceased.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of York county: Of May Term 1868. This appeal arose upon the distribution of the estate of Joshua Eetrow, deceased. Joshua Eetrow, by his will, devised “unto Matilda Wilson, during her natural life,” certain real estate, describing it “to have and to -hold the four described properties, and keep them in good repair during her life, and at her death I give, devise and bequeath the same unto her children, their heirs and assigns for ever.” * * * “ Should the said Matilda Wilson, however, die without issue as aforesaid, then,- and in that event, I direct that the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, May 14th 1868, by
Sharswood, J.
We have before us a very inartificially-drawn will, from which we are to gather the intention of the testator as far as it can be from the four corners of the instrument itself. It often happens that an unskilful scrivener, who uses technical words and legal phrases, creates more difficulty than would the unlearned testator himself had he employed his own simple language to express his meaning.
The first gift is that out of which this contest has arisen, It *427gives to Matilda Wilson during her natural life feveral pieces of…
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