Frankenfield v. Gruver
This text of 7 Pa. 448 (Frankenfield v. Gruver) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Supreme Court of Pennsylvania primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
On the death of an intestate without issue, the third section of the revised act of 1833 gives his personal estate to his father and mother, if living, jointly and absolutely; and this, like any other joint chose in action or chattel, survives to the surviving wife. Had the husband received the assets in this instance, he would have made them his own, and his wife could have claimed them only as his administratrix; but as he died a few days after the death of his son, she is entitled in her own right.
Judgment affirmed.
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