Legal Opinion

Dwight Estate

Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County

Decided November 9, 1956No. 3384 of 1934Published

1Opinion of the Court

Saylor, J.,

Testator, a bachelor, died in 1934, leaving a will executed by him on November 18, 1926, and four codicils thereto. By the second clause or paragraph of his will he created a trust of $300,000 for the benefit of Camilla Ross Austin, a niece, and of Margaret Erskine Canby. By the third paragraph he created a second trust out of his residuary estate for the benefit of two grandnieces, Dorothy Knight Colford and Clara Dwight Colford, minors at that time and presently living.

By his first codicil dated October 23, 1928, testator modified the third paragraph of his will by directing…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Northwestern National Bank v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1942
  2. Brennan's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1936
  3. Calder's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1941
  4. Estate of HowellSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1897
  5. Boyer EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1953

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