Legal Opinion

Bowen's Estate

Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County

Decided March 25, 1938No. 95Published

1Opinion of the Court

Bolger, J.,

This case is ruled by the decision in McDonald et al. v. Dunbar et al., 20 W. N. C. 559 (1887), where the testator employed two model clauses in disposing of his estate among his numerous children; the first type embodied a gift to a named son and was referred to in the other clauses containing gifts to other sons, the phrase being “in the same manner & way & under the same incumbrance that I have left my son James his land”, etc.; the second type he employed *108in devising to his daughters “in the same manner.” When one son died without issue, collaterals claimed inter alia an…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Schleich's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1926
  2. Tomlinson's EstateSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1915
  3. Braden v. CannonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1854
  4. Linn v. BowmanSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1921

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