Estate of Teacle
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY G. A. COOKE ET AL. FROM THE ORPHAHS’ COURT OF CHESTER COUNTY. No. 86 July Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, number and term, not given. On January 2,1889, the last will and testament of Catharine A. Teaele, who had died on December 19,1888, leaving her husband, John Littleton Teaele, surviving her, was duly admitted to probate before the register of wills of Chester county.
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APPEAL BY G. A. COOKE ET AL. FROM THE ORPHAHS’ COURT OF CHESTER COUNTY. No. 86 July Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, number and term, not given. On January 2,1889, the last will and testament of Catharine A. Teaele, who had died on December 19,1888, leaving her husband, John Littleton Teaele, surviving her, was duly admitted to probate before the register of wills of Chester county. By said will the testatrix devised the greater part of her real estate to her executors, George A. Cooke and William H. West, upon certain trusts, directing that the income of said trust property, “ or so much…
1Per curiam
Catharine A. Teacle devised all her real estate in trust for her husband during his life. They had no children. J. Littleton Teacle, the husband and the appellee in this case, declined to accept under the will, and claimed the estate as tenant by the curtesy. He gets but a life-estate in either event, but he prefers a life-estate unencumbered by the trust. *540His right as tenant by the curtesy must be admitted, unless, as claimed by the appellants, the “ Married Person’s Property Act” of June 3, 1887, P. L. 332, is in the way.
The fifth section of that act enacts that “ a married woman may…
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