Estate of Jacobs
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY T. H. B. JACOBS ET AL. FROM THE ORPHANS’ COURT OF CHESTER COUNTY. No. 76 January Term 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, number and term not stated.
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APPEAL BY T. H. B. JACOBS ET AL. FROM THE ORPHANS’ COURT OF CHESTER COUNTY. No. 76 January Term 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, number and term not stated. In the court below, Mr. H. H. Grilkyson was appointed auditor, to distribute a balance of a fund arising from personalty in the hands of John J. Kersey, executor of the will of Anna B. Jacobs, deceased, and also to make distribution of a fund arising from the sale by said executor, as trustee under appointment and order of said court, of the real estate of said testatrix. The auditor reported on August 1,1890, finding in substance the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Chief Justice Paxson:
The question here is, whether the real estate of the testatrix passed under the residuary clause of her will. At the time it was executed her property consisted only of personal estate. At the time of her death she was seised of real estate amounting in value to nearly as much as her personal estate. After giving several pecuniary legacies, and one or more specific legacies, she disposed of her residuary estate as follows : “ The remainder and residue of my money I give and bequeath to the Hospital of the Protestant Church in Philadelphia.” There is no mention…
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