Packer's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 130, Jan. T., 1914, by Garrett B. Linderman, Jr., from decree of O. 0., Philadelphia Co., April T., 1881, No. 323, dismissing exceptions to adjudication in estate of Asa Packer, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. Before Gum met, J. The facts appear in Packer’s Est. (No. 1), 246 Pa. 97, and in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court in banc dismissed the exceptions in an opinion by Anderson, J., Garrett B. Linderman, Jr., appealed.
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Appeal, No. 130, Jan. T., 1914, by Garrett B. Linderman, Jr., from decree of O. 0., Philadelphia Co., April T., 1881, No. 323, dismissing exceptions to adjudication in estate of Asa Packer, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. Before Gum met, J. The facts appear in Packer’s Est. (No. 1), 246 Pa. 97, and in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court in banc dismissed the exceptions in an opinion by Anderson, J., Garrett B. Linderman, Jr., appealed. Errors assigned were in dismissing the exceptions.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of
Mr. Justice Moschzisker,
As interpreted by this court, Asa Packer’s will created a trust to end twenty-one years after the death of the survivor of his three children, Robert, Mary and Harry, or sooner upon the decease of the last of these children with no descendant of any of them surviving [for a synopsis of the will, and our construction in this respect, see Packer’s Est. (No. 1) ]. The testator provided that whatever property might be in the hands of his trustees, not otherwise disposed of, on the termination of the trust, should be “paid over, transferred and delivered” to the…
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