EDMUNDS ESTATE


81 Pa. D. & C. 576 (1952)

Edmunds Estate

Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

December 12, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank W. Melvin and Grover C. Ladner, for exceptants.

John W. Dawson, Jr., and Stanley L. Thornton, contra.

Before Klein, P.J.; Bolger, Hunter, Lefever, Saylor and Shoyer, JJ.


Bolger, J., dissents.

The facts appear from the following excerpt from the adjudication of

BOLGER, J., Auditing Judge.

This will was executed and became effective prior to the Act of June 29, 1923, which act changed existing case law and established as a canon of construction in wills containing language similar to this one that the heirs who ultimately take are those in existence at the termination...

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