Dwight Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Benjamin R. Jones,
On November 18, 1926 E. Waterman Dwight, then a person of substantial means, executed a will. Under this will he created a primary trust of $300,000 for two relatives and their descendants and then created a secondary trust of which his residuary estate was the corpus and two grandnieces were the principal beneficiaries. Under the latter trust the income was payable to the two grandnieces for life, with succeeding life estates in their issue; the principal was to be distributed to such of their issue as should be living twenty-one years after the death…
2Cases cited30 opinions
- Jackson's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1940
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- Wahr EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1952
- March EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1947
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