Legal Opinion
In Re Estate of Laning
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided May 13, 1975No. 429PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
ROBERTS, Justice.
The will of Elizabeth Laning bequeathed her entire estate to a trustee, directing that the income be paid to her adopted daughter, Helen Laning Musser, for life and the corpus then distributed to “such of the lineal heirs of my daughter ... as there are, at the time the youngest arrives at the age of twenty-one years, members in good standing of the Presbyterian Church.” In the absence of qualifying grandchildren, the corpus was to pass to appellant Home for Homeless Women. After the death of the life tenant the trustee filed a final account and sought…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Lemon v. KurtzmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Shelley v. KraemerSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Walz v. Tax Comm'n of City of New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Murdock v. PennsylvaniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Epperson v. ArkansasSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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3Cited by2 opinions
- In Re Estate of LewisSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 2001
- In Re Estate of LaningSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1975