Legal Opinion

Worrell's Estate

Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County

Decided December 7, 1928No. 1536PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Van Dusen, J.,

The will contained a general clause substituting the next of kin of legatees who died before the testatrix. By the first codicil, testatrix disposed of certain furniture and boxes. By the second, codicil, she noted the death of a money legatee and substituted for her persons, who were not her next of kin. By the third codicil, she gave money to a religious society and said: “This is codicil to be added to my last Will in. place of the one that is there now — that I request to be destroyed.”

This codicil had only one witness and the bequest to the religious society was, therefore,…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Price v. MaxwellSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1857
  2. Melville's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1914
  3. Appeal of the Lutheran Congregation of Union ChurchSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1886

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Holt EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1961
  2. Holt EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1961

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