Ghriskey's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 196, Jan. T., 1914, by the Philadelphia Trust, Safe Depdsit and Insurance Company, Guardian ad litem of Susan W. Ghriskey, H. Williamson Ghriskey and Lillian W. Ghriskey, Minors, from decree of O. C. Philadelphia Co., Oct. T., 1913, No. 350, sustaining exceptions to adjudication in estate of Lillian W. Ghriskey, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. Before Gummey, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states 'the facts.
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Appeal, No. 196, Jan. T., 1914, by the Philadelphia Trust, Safe Depdsit and Insurance Company, Guardian ad litem of Susan W. Ghriskey, H. Williamson Ghriskey and Lillian W. Ghriskey, Minors, from decree of O. C. Philadelphia Co., Oct. T., 1913, No. 350, sustaining exceptions to adjudication in estate of Lillian W. Ghriskey, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. Before Gummey, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states 'the facts. The court sustained the exceptions in an opinion by Dallett, P. J. The Philadelphia Trust, Safe Deposit and Insurance Company, Guardians ad litem of Susan W.…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Stewart,
The only part of the will having relation to the inquiry raised by the appeal reads as follows, “The remainder is to be divided equally between my husband and our children, the children’s money to be held in trust until they are twenty-one years respectively, then they shall receive an annual income and the principal shall not be divided until each child is thirty years, at which time he or she shall receive his or her full share. I make my devoted husband, Charles M. Ghriskey, Jr., sole and only executor of this estate, with the wish that he appoint a suitable…
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