Bailey Estate

Opinion by

Me. Justice Allen M. Stearns,

This is an appeal from a decree of the Orphans’ Court of Allegheny County authorizing the administrator d. b. n. c. t. a. of the estate of Madison Bailey, deceased, to sell as personalty certain real estate of decedent. The sole question presented is whether there was an equitable conversion of the real estate under the terms of decedent’s will, which read in part as follows:

“Second. I give and bequeath to my said wife in lieu of dower (should she so elect) the Homestead on which 1 now reside situate on Terrace Avenue, Fourteenth Ward, City of Pittsburgh…