Hallowell Trust
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
1Dissent
*197Dissenting Opinion by
Mb. Chief Justice Bell:
The Majority Opinion in Hallowell Trust has three vices: (1) it may enrich or pauperize a life tenant every year at the whim of the Legislature, which is ridiculous; (2) in practical effect, it wipes out the applicability of the Statute against Accumulations to trusts and wills and written instruments at the date they were created or became effective; and (3) by necessary implications (or expressly), it overrules this Court’s decisions in Pew Trust, 411 Pa. 96, 191 A. 2d 399; Cannistra Estate, 384 Pa. 605, 121 A. 2d 157; Castner Estate, 412 Pa. 232,…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Beaver County Building & Loan Ass'n v. WinowichSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1936
- Newlin EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1951
- Pew TrustSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1963
- Catherwood TrustSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1961
- Moorehead's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1927
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