Baskin's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Mercer county. This was an appeal by B. F. Baskin, guardian of the minor children of Thomas Stevenson, deceased, from the decree of the court below, distributing the funds in his hands as guardian of the said minors. On the 20th October 1840, William Stevenson conveyed, by deed, to Oliver Stevenson, certain real and personal estate, in .trust for the use of the minor children of the grantor’s son, Thomas Stevenson.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Mercer county. This was an appeal by B. F. Baskin, guardian of the minor children of Thomas Stevenson, deceased, from the decree of the court below, distributing the funds in his hands as guardian of the said minors. On the 20th October 1840, William Stevenson conveyed, by deed, to Oliver Stevenson, certain real and personal estate, in .trust for the use of the minor children of the grantor’s son, Thomas Stevenson. And in ease of the death of Oliver Stevenson, the trustee, during the life of Thomas Stevenson, the eldest son and heir at law of Oliver was to be…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Read, J.
The construction of the deed of the 20th October 1840 has been settled by this court, in the cases of Mathews v. Stevenson, 6 Barr 496, and Stevenson v. Matthews, 9 Barr 316; and by the deaths of Thomas Stevenson and of Oliver Stevenson, the trustees, the trust has become vested in Benjamin E. Baskin, the guardian of the minor children of Thomas Stevenson. As the trust funds in his hands are, by the terms of the deed, charged with the remaining debts incurred by Thomas Stevenson, under the power granted to him by that instrument, Mr. Baskin is…
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