Pennington Trust
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Bell,
Three questions are presented by this appeal:(1) Has the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia County jurisdiction of this account and of the questions involved ;(2) (a) Does the law of New; Jersey or Pennsylvania govern the interpretation of the deed of trust, and (b) What did the settlor mean by “issue”?
We shall discuss these in inverse order.
George Powell Pennington, of Atlantic City, New Jersey, as settlor, and Ella Taylor Pennington, of Atlantic City, New Jersey, as trustee, and Girard Trust Company,* a Pennsylvania Corporation, as trustee, executed a revocable…
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