Legal Opinion
Verner Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided October 1, 1947No. Appeals, 113, 141 and 145PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op
Me. Justice Hoeace Steen,
Testatrix failed to make provision in her will for a contingency which happened, and, however great the temptation to supply the deficiency in accordance with what she presumably would have provided had the hiatus been called to her attention, a court is without power thus to reform the instrument.
Nancy S. Verner died in 1923. By her will she bequeathed to her brother, Harry W. Verner, the sum of $5.00, and to each of her sisters, Elizabeth V. Swartz and Maria W. Lindsay one-quarter of her residuary estate. The remaining one-half she left to the Fidelity…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Lockhart's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1932
- Beilstein v. BeilsteinSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1899
- Lippincott's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1923
- Grothe's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1910
- Rickenbach EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1943
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3Cited by36 opinions
- Sowers EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1956
- Conlin EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1957
- Walton EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1962
- Berger EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1948
- Pantazis v. Fidelity and Deposit Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1952
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