Gregg's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 96, Oct. T., 1905, by Washington Hospital, from decree of O. O. Washington Co., Nov. T., 1904, No. 9, refusing petition to sell real estate in Estate of Mary A. Gregg, deceased. Petition by Washington Hospital et al. to sell real estate. Before Taylor, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. Error assigned was decree of the court refusing the petition.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Brown,
The will of Mary A. Gregg, under which the Washington Hospital' claims a charitable bequest, was executed on October 8, 1899, between the hours of 3 and 5 o’clock p. m. She died on November 8, of the same year, between the hours of 7 and 8 o’clock p. m., and the single question raised on this. appeal is whether the bequest to the appellant is defeated by the Act of April 26, 1855, P. L. 328.
By the' eleventh section of the act it is declared “ that no estate, real or personal, shall hereafter be bequeathed, devised, or conveyed to any body politic, or to any person…
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