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Appeal, No. 194, Jan. T., 1895, by the Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., Jan. T., 1887.. No. 202, on exceptions to adjudication. Exceptions to adjudication.
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Appeal, No. 194, Jan. T., 1895, by the Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., Jan. T., 1887.. No. 202, on exceptions to adjudication. Exceptions to adjudication. The facts of this case appear in Sloan’s Appeal (the next preceding case). Error assigned was the first paragraph of the decree of the court below, which was as follows: “ So much of the items in the account as are rentals received from the residuary real estate, less all credits claimed for the payment of taxes and expenditures by the accountant in connection therewith and commissions claimed…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Williams,
The question raised by this appeal maybe stated thus : Who is entitled to the possession of a testator’s real estate after his decease ? In the case of an intestate the question would not be regarded as an open one. Upon his decease his personal estate goes to his administrator but his real estate descends to his heirs at law. What persons shall inherit as heirs at law is a question that has been answered differently by the laws of different countries : but when they have been designated they take at once, and in fee, eo instanti, the death of the owner. *432The…
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