PETROLIO ESTATE

No. 4934 of 1939.

78 Pa. D. & C. 428 (1951)

Petrolio Estate

Common Pleas Court of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

August 8, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin Jacobson, for petitioner.

John V. Snee, for respondents.


BOYLE, P.J., August 8, 1951.

The principal question here is whether a widow's election to take against her deceased husband's will is valid under the provisions of section 23(b) of the Wills Act of 1917, as amended, when the election is executed, filed and recorded 13 years after the husband's death but within one year after the issuance of letters of administration c.t.a. on his estate.

Another question is whether the widow, having filed and recorded...

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