Bacon's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals from the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia; No. 323, to January Term 1867. These ivere appeals from the decree of distribution of estate of Mary Ann Bacon, deceased: One by the executors and George W. Bacon, Harriet II. Price and Fanny E. Bacon, grandchildren of the decedent; the other by Anne E. Bacon and others, minor children of Joseph K. Bacon, another grandchild of the decedent.
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Appeals from the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia; No. 323, to January Term 1867. These ivere appeals from the decree of distribution of estate of Mary Ann Bacon, deceased: One by the executors and George W. Bacon, Harriet II. Price and Fanny E. Bacon, grandchildren of the decedent; the other by Anne E. Bacon and others, minor children of Joseph K. Bacon, another grandchild of the decedent. The fund for'distribution was the balance in hands of Charles W. Bacon and others, executors, &c., of Mrs. Bacon. Part of the fund came to her under the will of John Warder, deceased, and amounted, as found…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Strong, J.
There are two controlling questions in this case. The first is, whether the trust created by the will of John Warder, for the use of his daughter Mrs. Bacon, continued during her life, though she survived her husband; and the second is, whether the estate given in remainder to her right heirs was legal or equitable. Upon the answers to be given to these questions, depends the rightful determination of all the matters in controversy between the parties.
By the disposition first made by the testator, his sons were constituted trustees of…
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