Legal Opinion

Paul Estate

Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Allegheny County

Decided January 28, 1957No. 1659 of 1941Published

1Opinion of the Court

Wolk, J.,

for the court en banc,

This case comes before the court en banc on exceptions that were filed to the supplemental decree of court entered June 26, 1956, by Jacob W. Paul, Jr., and Pittsburgh Association for Improvement of the Poor, which decree awarded $5,716.93 to the residuary legatees under paragraph eighteenth of the will, rather than to the remaindermen under paragraph ninth of the will.

Jacob W. Paul died testate July 21,1920. In his will and codicil he created 10 trusts totaling $308,000. The trust under consideration was created by the ninth paragraph of the will, which reads…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. In re Estate of BoyerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1896
  2. Sentner's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1941

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