Freeman's Estate

227 Pa. 161

• Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
• Decided: January 7, 1910
• Docket: No. 2; Appeal, No. 323
• Status: Published

Opinion

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Moschzisker,

February 14,1910:

The will of the decedent, Charles D. Freeman, and the facts in connection therewith, have been passed upon in another opinion this day filed in the appeal of Anna Dimond Freeman from the same decree which we are about to consider.

The orphans’ court decided that, subject to the life estate given to his widow, the testator died intestate as to all of his property, and the estate of the widow was entitled to an absolute award of one-third of the decedent’s entire personal estate. In making the decree of distribution one-third of the principal was awarded to the estate of the widow, but for some reason which does not appear in either of the opinions filed by the court below, none of the accumulations of income were awarded to her estate. Proper exceptions were filed in the court below calling attention to this fact; all of which were dismissed. The assignments of error are based upon these exceptions. They not only cover the abstract question of the right of the estate of the widow to receive the accumulations of income properly apportionable to the principal awarded to her personal representatives, but they also contain numerous concrete figures concerning different items of income in the account. It is not necessary that we shall pass upon the particular sums to which the estate of the widow is entitled. We decide that her estate is entitled to all of the accumulations of income properly apportionable to the principal awarded to her personal representatives. To this extent the assignments of error are sustained, and to this extent the decree is reversed; and the record is remitted to the court below in order that distribution may be made in accordance with the above opinion.