STACHNICK ESTATE


376 Pa. 592 (1954)

Stachnick Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 22, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S.U. Colbassani and Ernest J. Gazda, for executor.

Walter W. Kaezmarek and Sidney Grabowski, for widow.

Before STERN, C.J., STEARNE, JONES, BELL, CHIDSEY, MUSMANNO and ARNOLD, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ALLEN M. STEARNE, March 22, 1954:

The two appeals relate to decrees of the Orphans' Court of Lackawanna County. One appeal is by the executor (a co-devisee and co-legatee) from a decree allowing a family exemption of $750 to the surviving widow, under the Fiduciaries Act of April 18, 1949, P.L. 512, art. II, sec. 211, 20 PS 320.211, out of specifically devised real estate. The other appeal is by the...

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