Legal Opinion · Dissent

Hallowell Trust

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided October 3, 1968No. Appeal, No. 197Published

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

  1. Beaver County Building & Loan Ass'n v. WinowichSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1936
  2. Newlin EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1951
  3. Pew TrustSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1963
  4. Catherwood TrustSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1961
  5. Moorehead's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1927

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