Legal Opinion

Bredlinger's Appeal

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided July 1, 1854PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal by Jacob Bredlinger and others, from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Montgomery county.

1Opinion of the Court

The facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court, by

Knox, J.

— This case is governed by Hunter’s Appeal, 6 Barr, 97. There the direction was to sell at public sale, all of the testator’s estate, real and personal, the fund to be created by said sale, to be divided amongst certain devisees. This was held not to include bonds, notes, and cash on hand. Here the language of the will is, “ my personal as well as real property, to be sold publicly, .and the income shall be equally divided amongst my five yet living children.” By the word income, the testator evidently meant…

2Cited by1 opinion

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