Vernier's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Sadler,

William F. Vernier died November 23,1906, leaving to survive him a widow, four sons and one daughter. Of these, Eugene died intestate, and without issue, on September 9,1918, and the testator’s wife, Cornelia, in May of 1922. Nellie M. Vernier, the widow of Eugene, presented a petition to the orphans’ court, setting forth that her husband had become the owner in his lifetime of a, certain property, under the terms of his father’s will, and ashing that this be set aside to her as a part of her $5,000 allowance, under the provisions of the Intestate Act of 1917.…