Biddle's Estate

Opinion by

Me. Justice Schaeeeé,

The question we have to meet is this: May1 a limited power of appointment, in a will, be exercised by: the donee of the power, without direct reference in his will to the creating power, by a clause, which names as beneficiaries all the members of the permitted class and no one else?

W. Lyman Biddle died July 5, 1920, unmarried, survived by a brother, Henry W. Biddle, and two sisters, Anna S. Blair and Julia Biddle. By the ninth paragraph of his will, he created a trust for Mrs. Blair consisting' of one-third of his residuary estate, providing that she should…