Wills - Stock Split - Legatee Takes Exact Number of Shares Bequeathed

Authors

Mark A. Rock

Abstract

A testatrix's bequest of a specified number of stock shares which split after she made her will but before she died was held effective to pass only the exact number bequeathed and not the total number owned at death.

Greathead Estate, 428 Pa. 553, 236 A.2d 224 (1967), rehearing denied, 236 A.2d 224 (1968).

First Page

400

Recommended Citation

Mark A. Rock, Wills - Stock Split - Legatee Takes Exact Number of Shares Bequeathed, 6 Duq. L. Rev. 400 (1967).
Available at: https://dsc.duq.edu/dlr/vol6/iss4/8