Legal Opinion

Trainer's Estate

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided November 12, 1935No. Appeal, 299PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Baldrige, J.,

The question before us is whether the appellant’s husband, who died before the termination of a testamentary trust created by his father, had a vested estate in the income pur autre vie, or was his interest terminated by his own death?

George E. Trainer died April 14, 1918, survived by four children, Robert P. Trainer, Katharine Harvey Watson, Mary Rittenhouse Trainer, and Anna Carrie Trainer. The testator directed that his personal estate be divided between his four children above named, and devised certain parcels of his real estate to each of them. The residuary…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Mulliken v. EarnshawSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1904
  2. Estate of RowlandSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1891
  3. Little's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1876
  4. Maxwell's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1918
  5. Nixon's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1931

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. HarrisSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1995
  2. Brock's EstatePennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County · 1941
  3. Carter EstatePennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County · 1968
  4. Lentz EstatePennsylvania Orphans' Court, Montgomery County · 1961

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