In re Estate of Moran
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 57, Jan. T., 1899, by William Moran, executor of the estate of Patrick Moran, deceased, from decree of O. C. Susquehanna Co., Nov.
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Appeal, No. 57, Jan. T., 1899, by William Moran, executor of the estate of Patrick Moran, deceased, from decree of O. C. Susquehanna Co., Nov. T., 1897, No. 50, adjudicating the payment of a legacy of $1,000 to the administrator of Patrick Moran, Jr. Opinion by W. W. Porter, J. Rule upon Miller S. Allen; administrator of estate of Patrick Moran, deceased, and Thomas Allen, to show cause why the sale of real estate of Patrick Moran, deceased, and all proceedings upon which the said sale is founded should not be set aside. Searle, P. J., filed the following opinion : Patrick Moran, late of the…
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William W. Pouter, J.,
Little can profitably be added to what has been said in the opinion of the court below. The provision for Patrick Moran is not in the form of a substantive gift, but only of a direction to pay twelve years after the decedent’s death. He died six years after the decedent. It is claimed that the legacy is contingent on, the survival of the legatee until the time fixed for *265payment and that by his death the provision fell. In Reed’s Appeal, 118 Pa. 215, it is said: “ The gift of a legacy under the form of a direction to pay at a future time, or upon a future event,…
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