Lamb Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Roberts,
This appeal requires that we determine whether the specific devise of a house “including the contents thereof, absolutely” is a gift of not only the furniture and furMshings but also of three savings accounts, a checking account, three savings bank certificates and uncashed checks payable to testatrix. These latter items, all found in the home, amount to $46,140.63, and constitute a substantial part of the estate.
Testatrix, Marie A. Lamb, died April 27, 1971, leaving a will dated October 22, 1968, wMch was duly admitted to probate. The sole specific bequest in…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Vandergrift EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1962
- Hill EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1968
- Schappell EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1967
- In re the Construction of the Will of FalveyNew York Court of Appeals · 1962
- Coffman EstatePennsylvania Orphans' Court, Huntingdon County · 1968
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