Willcox's Estate
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 135, Oct. T., 1916, by West End Trust Co., Ancillary, Administrator c. t. a. of Estate of William Harvey Willcox, deceased, Distributee, from decree of O. C. Philadelphia Co., Oct. T., 1902, No. 186, dismissing exceptions to adjudication in Estate of Frederick Willcox, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Error assigned was in dismissing exceptions to adjudication.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Porter, J.,
This case presents the question of the proper distribution, as between principal and income of a trust fund, of an extraordinary stock dividend, upon stock in a corporation which formed part of the trust fund. Frederick Willcox died on July 2, 1901, leaving a will which bequeathed the residue of his estate to the Philadelphia Trust Company, in trust to pay the income of the fund to his children during their respective lives, one-fifth of the income being payable to his son, William Harvey Willcox, during his life, and the will made provision for the disposition of the…
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