Corr's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Barnes,

These appeals present two questions regarding the construction of the will of Bernard Corr, who died December 26, 1912. The first is raised by the appeal of Joseph K. Seidle, the adopted son of testator’s daughter, Katherine M. Gorman. Her death on May 22, 1938, is the reason for the present accounting by the trustees under the will.

Testator’s will, dated May 21, 1906, set up identical trusts of $400,000 each for his four surviving daughters, named in the will as Catherine McCafferty (later Katherine M. Gorman), Annie B. Jones, Mary G. Smith, and Helen M. Duffy…