Case ID: pa-d-c_5/html/0439-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Thompson, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

McDowell’s Estate.
    
      Wills — Construction—Gift over to next of kin of A.
    
    Under a gift over to the next of kin of A, the persons to take under the description are to he ascertained as of the date of A’s death and not as of the date of the death of the last surviving life-tenant.
    Exceptions to adjudication. O. C. Phila. Co., April T., 1879, No. 577.
    
      David E. Rattin and Albert T. Bauerle, for exceptants.
    
      George A. Maene, for the exeeutor'of the last surviving life-tenant.
    
      Charles Sinnickson, for the Philadelphia Trust Company, trustee.
    Dec. 19, 1924.
   Thompson, J.,

Testatrix gave a part of her residuary estate to trustees to pay the income therefrom to her sister, Catharine, for life, and thereafter to the two daughters of her sister, Catharine, during their lives and the life of the survivor, with remainder over to their issue, and in default of issue “to the next of kin of my said sister Catharine.”

The two daughters of her sister, Catharine, died without issue, and the auditing judge, following the rule laid down In Stewart’s Estate, 147 Pa. 383, awarded the fund to the next of kin of her sister, Catharine, as ascertained at the date of her death, and not at the date of the death of the last surviving life-tenant, and in so doing committed no error.

All exceptions filed to the ruling of the auditing judge are dismissed and the adjudication confirmed absolutely.