Stauffer's Estate

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

This is an appeal from an order of the Orphans’ Court of Lancaster County directing the administrator of the decedent’s estate to have appraised and set apart for Barbara Stauffer, his widow, personal property of the value of $500, as a widow’s exemption.

By section 12 (a) of the Fiduciaries Act of 1917, P. L. 447, 471, it is provided that unless she has forfeited her rights, the widow may retain or claim either real or personal property, or the proceeds of either real or personal property, belonging to her husband’s estate, to the value of five hundred dollars.

The…