Vogt's Estate

Gest, J.,

The ordinary rule governing the allowance of interest upon pecuniary legacies is that the interest runs only from the time that the legacies are due and demandable, and as it is obviously necessary that a reasonable time should be allowed an executor for the settlement of the estate, this time was fixed in the earlier statutes as one year from the testator’s death, section 7 of the Act of March 21, 1772, 1 Sm. Laws, 385, re-enacted substantially in section 51 of the Act of Feb. 24, 1834, P. L. 83. The effect of this legislation was to supply a testamentary intent where none is…