Case Name: Gordon's Appeal
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1886-02-08
Citations: 1 Sadler 449
Docket Number: 
Parties: Gordon’s Appeal.
Judges: 
Reporter: Cases in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; being those cases not designated to be reportedÉ
Volume: 1
Pages: 449–449

Head Matter:
Gordon’s Appeal.
Equitable conversion held not to have taken place under the provisions of will, until actual sale and payment of purchase money.
(Decided February 8, 1886.)
From a decree of the Common Pleas, No. 2, of Philadelphia County, sitting in equity.
Affirmed.
E. K. Nichols for appellant.
Joseph J. Broadhurst for appellees. '
Note.- — -To work a conversion of real estate there must be a positive direction to sell in the will, or an absolute necessity to sell to execute it, or such a blending of real and personal estate by the testator in his will as clearly to show that he intended to create a fund out of both his real and personal estate, and to bequeath the said fund as money. Hunt’s Appeal, 105 Pa. 128; Keim’s Estate, 201 Pa. 609, 51 Atl. 337; Rauch’s Estate, 21 Pa. Super. Ct. 60.

Opinion:
Per Curiam:
The will of Stephen T. Gordon did not of itself work a conversion of his real estate. There was no error in the conclusion of the master that conversion did not take place until a sale and payment of the purchase money. A bill for an account was the appropriate remedy, and the appellees were entitled to an account. The several findings of the master appear to be sustained by the evidence, and justify the decree.
Decree affirmed and appeal dismissed, at the costs of the appellant.