In Re Estate of Tower

*96 OPINION

JONES, Chief Justice.

Charlemagne Tower, a resident of Philadelphia, died on July 24, 1889. He left a will dated May 21, 1889, by which he put his residuary estate in trust for the benefit of his family. The trust is to run for a period of twenty-one years beyond the death of the survivor of a group comprising testator’s five children and five grandchildren who were living at his death.

Originally, the trust income was payable to the testator’s widow and children, all of whom died some years ago, and the income is now payable to any living grandchildren and to spouses and descendants of…