Crean's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Kephart,

In 1934 appellant filed her petition to modify a decree of the orphans’ court entered in 1896, which authorized a testamentary trustee to convey real estate, reserving a yearly ground rent of $8,000 extinguishable “at any time after fifteen years” at the option of the purchaser by the payment of $200,000. The modification prayed for was the annulment of that portion of the decree which authorized payment at any time after fifteen years and the reason assigned was that it violated the Act of June 24, 1885, P. L. 161. As stated by the court below: “The real…