WILLS--MERGER OF ANNUITY FOR LIFE IN RESIDUE WHICH PASSED BY INTESTACY

Authors

L. K. Cooperrider S.Ed., University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow

Abstract

Testator made several pecuniary bequests, including an annuity to his daughter of $25 per month for life. The residue was bequeathed to charity, but this gift failed, and it went instead, by intestacy, to the daughter and a granddaughter. The latter, objecting to a plan of distribution proposed by the auditor, petitioned for immediate payment to herself of one-half of the entire estate, contending that the daughter's annuity merged in her intestate share. The Orphans' Court dismissed the petition, and decreed that $12,831.44 of the estate of $32,831.44 be retained to carry out the testator's delayed bequests, including the annuity, and that the balance of $20,000 be paid to the two distributees in equal shares. On appeal, held, affirmed. In re Yeisley's Estate, (Pa. 1948) 56 A. (2d) 205.

Recommended Citation

L. K. Cooperrider S.Ed., WILLS--MERGER OF ANNUITY FOR LIFE IN RESIDUE WHICH PASSED BY INTESTACY, 47 Mich. L. Rev. 287 (1948).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol47/iss2/21