Castner's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia county: Of July Term 1878, No. 84. The proceedings in this case were as follows: Lewis Ryan, the testator, died on the 23d of June 1850, leaving a will, by which certain trusts were created.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia county: Of July Term 1878, No. 84. The proceedings in this case were as follows: Lewis Ryan, the testator, died on the 23d of June 1850, leaving a will, by which certain trusts were created. The original trustees having died, Robert L. Reilly‘was appointed sole trustee, thereunder, on March 6th-1877. The time having arrived for the- distribution of the whole estate, Reilly, the trustee, filed his first and final account in the Orphans’ Court, reporting $44,910.09 for distribution. No objection was raised to the account, and the only point of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
Lewis Ryan died in 1850, leaving three daughters, Ann, Martha and Mary, and five grandchildren who were the children of his deceased daughter Catherine, wife of Philip Reilly. After making specific disposition of a part, the testator gave all the rest, residue and remainder of his property, real, personal and mixed to trustees, with full power and authority to sell, invest and collect the income *490and interest thereof; in trust, however, to divide the said income and interest into four equal shares or parts; to pay one full and equal part thereof, half yearly, to each of his daughters above…
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