DUBLIN ESTATE


375 Pa. 599 (1954)

Dublin Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

January 4, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elder W. Marshall, with him Harry A. Estep, Carl E. Glock, Jr., and Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay for appellants.

William H. Eckert, with him Smith, Buchanan, Ingersoll, Rodewald & Eckert, for appellee.

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


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE JONES, January 4, 1954:

The question in this case is whether a devise of real estate was adeemed by an agreement of sale of the devised property which the testatrix entered into subsequent to the execution of her will. The learned court below, one judge dissenting, held that the agreement did not work an ademption. With that, we agree.

The testatrix's sister and brother (the latter, now deceased, represented by his executor), as the...

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