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McFERREN ESTATE

365 Pa. 490 (1950)

McFerren Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

November 13, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A.J. White Hutton, with him John A. Smarsh and Robbin B. Wolf, for Ruth McFerren Roof et al., appellants.

Robert W. McWhinney, for Mabel Elizabeth Miller Price et al., appellants.

Arthur W. Henderson, with him Judson A. Crane, William S. Moorhead, Jr. and Moorhead & Knox, for Edna Reynolds McCaulley, appellant, and Rose Reynolds et al., appellees.

Kenneth P. Christman, for Edward H. Walters, appellant (at No. 145), and appellee (at Nos. 140, 141 and 142).

Before DREW, C.J., STERN, STEARNE, JONES and CHIDSEY, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ALLEN M. STEARNE, November 13, 1950:

Eight appeals have been taken from a definitive decree of distribution of a decedent's estate by the Orphans' Court of Allegheny County. All relate to ademption and lapse of legacies.

Before considering the various appeals the general principles of law relating to this subject matter must be examined. An ademption occurs where a legacy is specific and the thing bequeathed is disposed...

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