Watson's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 353, Jan. T., 1912, by Jane A. Murphy, from decree of O. C. Fayette Co., Sept. Ct., 1911, No. 45, dismissing petition in Estate of James G. Watson, deceased. Petition to require a life tenant of personal property, with power to consume, to file a bond for the protection of the remaindermen. Before Work, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court dismissed the petition. Error assigned, among others, was in dismissing the petition.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Mestrezat,
We think the controlling question in this case is ruled by Tyson’s Est., 191 Pa. 218, Dickinson’s Est., 209 Pa. 59, and kindred cases, and that the learned court below erred in its disposition of the case. The doctrine is well illustrated in Tyson’s Estate. There the testator gave his widow his whole estate, both real and personal, with the right to use it at pleasure for her sole use as fully and largely as the testator himself could have done in his lifetime and with the management and control of the same, and with full power at any time to sell or dispose of…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Estate of TysonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1899
- Gross v. StromingerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1896
3Cited by24 opinions
- Strite v. McGinnesCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1964
- Powell's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1940
- Hoffman v. McGinnesCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1960
- Lyman EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1950
- English's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1921
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