Williams v. Williams

Opinion by

Keller, J.,

This is not the case of a testator devising real estate in his will and subsequently conveying it away by deed. In that event the conveyance operates as a revocation of the will pro tanto: Balliet’s App., 14 Pa. 451. This is just the converse. The testator devised real estate which he did not own at the date of making his will and subsequently acquired title to the land thus devised. He then made a codicil to his will. This, although not specially mentioning the real estate in question, amounted to a republication of the original will except as altered by the codicil:…