Earle's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Barnes,

The question here presented arises under the will of Annie C. Earle, who died on February 2, 1935. Testatrix directed that her home, 2139 Locust Street, Philadelphia, be sold and the proceeds paid over to the Provident Trust Company of Philadelphia, in trust to pay the net income to her great-niece, Annie Marie Collins, for her life with limitation over of the principal upon the death of the great-niece. The beneficiary was a minor, fourteen years of age when the death of testatrix occurred.

The property on Locust Street was subject to a $10,000 mortgage, with the…