Estate of Sallie B. Dingee

Opinion by

Stadtfeld, J.,

This is an appeal from the decree of the orphans’ court of Bucks County denying the petition of Lawrence G. Taylor, testamentary trustee under the will of Sallie B. Dingee, deceased, to sell certain real estate in decedent’s residuary estate in order to raise a fund to pay taxes and insurance on decedent’s homestead which was devised to the trustee in trust for several successive life tenants with remainder over.

Sallie B. Dingee died on the 4th day of July, 1909. On July 12, 1909 her last will and testament was duly probated in the orphans’ court of Bucks County,…