Ingels Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
1Dissent
Dissenting Opinion by
Mr. Justice Bell:
Did the deposit of moneys by Mrs. Ingels in a savings account opened by her titled “Mrs. William M. In-gels in Trust for James M. Peck” plus her acts and declarations, create a revocable or irrevocable trust? Prior-to the dictum in Scanlon's Estate, 313 Pa. 424, 169 A. 106, which adopted “The Totten tentative trust doctrine” the law of Pennsylvania was clearly established that (1) the deposit of a sum of money in a bank in the name of the donor as trustee for the named beneficiary created a valid trust, and (2) such facts were sufficient to make out a…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- In Re the Accounting of TottenNew York Court of Appeals · 1904
- Scanlon's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1933
- Windolph v. Girard Trust Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1914
- Estate of GaffneyPennsylvania Orphans' Court, Cambria County · 1892
- Reese v. Philadelphia Trust, Safe Deposit & InsuranceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1907
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