Jackson's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 2, Jan. T., 1904, by The People’s Trust, Savings & Deposit Company, administrator of Mabel Y. Tucker, deceased, from decree of O. C. Lancaster Co., dismissing exceptions to adjudication in estate of Deborah Jackson, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was in dismissing exceptions to adjudication.
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
The will of the testatrix directed, “ The balance of my estate I give to my granddaughter Mabel Y. Tucker, when she shall arrive at the age of twenty-one years, and I appoint Alfred Wood to be her guardian; but in case of her death, without an heir, before she shall reach the age of twenty years, the portion that would have fallen to her shall be divided as follows : ” naming the secondary beneficiaries.
The gift to the granddaughter was contingent on her arriving at the age of twenty-one years, and as she died before that *521age it never .vested. The further provision as to her death…
2Cited by1 opinion
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