Legal Opinion

McGlathery's Estate

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided April 20, 1933No. Appeal, 254PublishedCited by 47 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Linn,

Appellant contends that the learned court below erred in excluding from the meaning of the words “personal property,” in the sense and the connection in which they were used by the testatrix, a half interest in an $11,000 mortgage, not possessed by testatrix when her will was made, but bequeathed to her by her sister who died subsequently.

Testatrix died February 29,1932, unmarried and with' out issue. Her will was duly proved a few days later. In it she provided as follows: “Second: I give and be: queath unto Gertrude Graves, now residing at 15 South 59th Street,…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Postlethwaite's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1871
  2. Estate of SchmidthSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1898

3Cited by47 opinions

  1. Jackson's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1940
  2. In the Matter of Bristol Associates, Inc., Debtor. Appeal of Girard Trust BankCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1974
  3. Clark EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1948
  4. Harris EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1944
  5. Horace S. Miller, Jr. And Isabel M. Campbell, Co-Executors of the Estate of Isabella Steel Miller, Deceased v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1968

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