Behan Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Bell,

Four appeals involving various and highly technical points, were presented and argued together in this Court. Without discussing some of the technical questions raised, we shall decide the basic questions, in which all parties are interested, on their merits.

Richard J. Behan on December 29, 1949, made a valid inter vivos trust agreement with Potter Bank & Trust Company, with active duties imposed upon the trustee, which was duly amended on December 31, 1952. Under the terms of the amended trust agreement the income of the trust was payable to Miss Agnes Fox, Behan’s…