Estate of Hays
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 179, Oct. T., 1897, by Agnes Wylie, from decree of O. C. Allegheny Co., June T., 1893, No. 7, dismissing petition for partition. Petition for partition.
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Appeal, No. 179, Oct. T., 1897, by Agnes Wylie, from decree of O. C. Allegheny Co., June T., 1893, No. 7, dismissing petition for partition. Petition for partition. The petitioner, Agnes Wylie, was the daughter of James H. Hays, the testator, wbo died on March 30, 1876, leaving a will, the material portions of which were as follows: “I bequeath to my beloved wife, Mary, in absolute property, my household furniture, and all other movable personal property ordinarily used about my dwelling bouse. “I devise and bequeath tbe residue and remainder of my estate, real, personal and mixed, to my…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Williams,
The questions presented by this record are ruled by Barnett’s *394Appeal, 46 Pa. 392. The will of James H. Hays was carefully jirepared. He gave to Mrs. Wylie, the appellant, as to his other daughters, an equitable life estate, limited to her sole and separate use, iir one eleventh part of his real estate. The legal title was distinctly given to his executors, who were also trustees for his daughters, upon a well defined trust which was to continue beyond the lives of the cestuis que trust. The estate was large, embracing more than a quarter of a million of dollars…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Barnett's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1864
3Cited by1 opinion
- Hays's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1902