Legal Opinion

Estate of Karahuta

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided October 5, 1978No. 465PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

EAGEN, Chief Justice.

In the last will and testament of Nellie M. Karahuta, deceased, she devised certain realty to a son, Russell Ronald Karahuta, but directed that unless certain conditions “are met by him”, the property is to be inherited by Mrs. Bernadine L. Menchowsky. The conditions were that the son be a widower or “divorced from his present wife” at the time of the testatrix’s death.

At testatrix’s death, the conditions were not “met”; the son was not a widower nor was he divorced from his “present wife.” When the executors filed an accounting of the estate, no mention or…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Reese's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1935
  2. Musser's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1940
  3. Hand's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1927
  4. Girt EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1973
  5. In Re Estate of HainSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1975

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. In Re Estate of PendergrassSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2011
  2. Appeal of GannonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1993
  3. Trust of HoldeenSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1979
  4. Estate of Schermer, E., Appeal of: Schermer, M.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 2017

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