Legal Opinion · Dissent

Murphey's Estate

Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County

Decided March 31, 1922No. 330Published

Exceptions to adjudication. O. C. Phila. Co., Oct. T., 1896, No. 330.

1Dissent

HENDERSON, J.,

dissenting. — The question to be decided is, are the heirs to be ascertained as of the death of the testator or of the surviving life-tenant. In McKee’s Estate, 198 Pa. 255, the heirs at the death of the testator were excluded by inference merely, whereas, in this will, the testator forbids his children, their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, from claiming any more of his estate “other than what I have so hereinbefore devised him, her or them, or any of them.” He had “hereinbefore” given them only life estates in the residue, and, hence, having excluded them by…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. McKee's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1901

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