Legal Opinion

Mason's Estate

Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County

Decided December 24, 1943No. 649 of 1917Published

1Opinion of the Court

Bolger, J.,

Testator died February 11, 1916, leaving a will, part of the residuary clause of which was revoked by a codicil. His unremar*659ried widow died in 1928. The question is whether the revoked portion of residue is distributable under the intestate laws or in augmentation of the other residuary gift of principal.

The revoked portion of the residuary clause is the italicized part of the following phrase:

“IN TRUST upon the decease or remarriage of my said wife to pay over the entire net income to my said son and upon his attainment of the age of twenty five years to pay over to him one half…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Williamson's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1930
  2. Gray's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1892
  3. Bricker's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1939
  4. Fuller's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1909
  5. Carson's EstateSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1937

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