Jackson Trust

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Patterson,

Where an irrevocable deed of trust provides a life estate for the wife of the settlor and reserves to the settlor a general power of appointment of the corpus by will, may he by a subsequent inter vivos deed, without the joinder of the wife, extinguish said power of appointment and direct that after the death of his wife and himself the corpus shall be distributed to a corporation for the benefit of his creditors? This is an appeal by Belle Jackson Schoble, a daughter of William P. Jackson, deceásed, settlor, from a decree of the court below directing…