Levy's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 256, Jan. T., 1894, by Medora L. Altemus et al., from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., April T., 1893, No. 337, distributing estate of Mary Ann Levy, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication of account of administratrix c. t. a. Before the auditing judge, Ferguson, J., it appeared that Mary Ann Levy died on Feb. 6, 1891, leaving to survive her three daughters and a son.
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Appeal, No. 256, Jan. T., 1894, by Medora L. Altemus et al., from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., April T., 1893, No. 337, distributing estate of Mary Ann Levy, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication of account of administratrix c. t. a. Before the auditing judge, Ferguson, J., it appeared that Mary Ann Levy died on Feb. 6, 1891, leaving to survive her three daughters and a son. By her will written on four separate pieces of paper, each executed by testatrix and attested by witnesses, she directed as follows: “ These few lines will make my wishes known and I feel sure my dear children will be…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
We find it impossible to believe that the testatrix intended to dispose of her whole estate by the use of any of the words which are claimed to have such an effect in the four testamentary papers signed by her. Those words did not purport to include anything but money, and the immediate context in each instance is of such a character as to preclude the possibility of attributing to her any other intent than to make a gift of money *197distinctively as such. The great bulk of the estate to which she was entitled at the time of her death had in it no money at all. It consisted of a…
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