Edge's Estate

Opinion by Mr.

Chief Justice Schaffer,

Has the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania the right to receive property by will ?

Rebecca J. Edge died in 1932, leaving a will in which she gave her residuary estate to the Commonwealth. Her heirs contend that, at the time of her death, the Commonwealth was not empowered by any statute to receive property by will, and that, therefore, she died intestate and the property passed to them. The court below held the gift to the Commonwealth valid. The heirs have appealed.

The testatrix had the legal right to give her estate to the Commonwealth. She could dispose of her…