Blenon's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the orphans’ court of Philadelphia. This case depended upon the construction of the eighth item of the decedent’s last will and testament, dated May 12th, 1836, as follows: “ Eighthly, I give and bequeath, in full ownership, to the different institutions of charity and beneficence, constituted and established at Philadelphia, for the relief of the unfortunate, and of those who live under the affliction of infirmities and of every sort of privations, without any…
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Appeal from the orphans’ court of Philadelphia. This case depended upon the construction of the eighth item of the decedent’s last will and testament, dated May 12th, 1836, as follows: “ Eighthly, I give and bequeath, in full ownership, to the different institutions of charity and beneficence, constituted and established at Philadelphia, for the relief of the unfortunate, and of those who live under the affliction of infirmities and of every sort of privations, without any distinction of sect or religion, and after all the legacies and donations which I make herein shall be complied with and…
1Opinion of the Court
*348The following elaborate and learned opinion was delivered by
Baldwin, J.
— This case arises on the will of Sarah Zane, a member of the society of friends, who in the body thereof, describes herself as of the city of Philadelphia: she died in Virginia, but as it has not been questioned, we shall assume this to have been the place of her domicil at the time of her death; the law of the state must therefore govern her disposition of her personal property, as well as of her real estate situated here. 1 Binn. 336, 44; 3 R. 318; 3 Penn. Rep. 187, 8.
The questions which have been made in the argument,…
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