Estate of Vastine
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 310, 311 and 312, by Walter G. Roland and Lewis Y. Halberstadt, from decrees of O. C. Schuylkill Go., dismissing petition for removal of trustee, dismissing petition for review and dismissing exceptions to adjudication. Petition for dismissal of trustee. Before Dunn, P. J. Petition for review. Exceptions to adjudication. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeals, Nos. 310, 311 and 312, by Walter G. Roland and Lewis Y. Halberstadt, from decrees of O. C. Schuylkill Go., dismissing petition for removal of trustee, dismissing petition for review and dismissing exceptions to adjudication. Petition for dismissal of trustee. Before Dunn, P. J. Petition for review. Exceptions to adjudication. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Errors assigned were the decree dismissing petition for removal of trustee, decree dismissing petition for review, and’decree dismissing exceptions to adjudication. A testamentary trustee is not required to…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Fell,
The decrees from which these appeals are taken are separate, but they were entered in the same estate and relate to the same subject, the management of a trust, and the appeals may be considered together. The first appeal is from a decree dismissing the petition of the appellants for the removal of Henry C. Russell as trustee of the estate of Lewis Vastine; the second is from a decree dismissing the petition of the same parties for a review of the third account of the trustee, and the third is from a decree confirming the adjudication of the fourth account of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Appeal of PriestleySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1889
3Cited by2 opinions
- Estate of Peabody v. Lawrence CollegeWisconsin Supreme Court · 1935
- Wanamaker EstatePennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County · 1966