Legal Opinion

Hansen's Estate

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided January 19, 1942No. Appeals, 20-22PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Stern,

Testatrix, who died on January 15, 1939, leaving an estate of over two and a half million dollars, bequeathed to her executors the sum of $250,000 “either in cash or in securities, at the election of my executors,” in trust to pay one-half of the net income to her daughter, Lynda H. Gellatly, for the support, maintenance and education of the grandson of testatrix, John Hansen Gellatly, during his minority, the other half to be accumulated and paid to him upon his attaining the age of twenty-one; thereafter to pay the entire net income to him during his life, with…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Severns's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1905
  2. Williams's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1873

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Commonwealth Bank & Trust Co. v. CommonwealthCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1990
  2. Hildreth EstatePennsylvania Orphans' Court, Montgomery County · 1963
  3. Nesley Estate, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Chester County1993

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