Legal Opinion

Balch Estate

Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County

Decided May 13, 1960No. 2662 of July, 1927Published

1Opinion of the Court

Klein, P. J.,

Emily Swift Balch died on January 6, 1917, leaving a will and codicil by which, inter alia, she devised and bequeathed her residuary estate to her executors in trust to pay the net income therefrom in equal, shares to her two sons, Edwin Swift Balch and Thomas Willing Balch, for the terms of their natural lives, upon the terms of a spend*99thrift trust, with further provisions to become operative upon the death of either of her sons leaving descendants him surviving, not necessary to recite, and in default of descendants surviving either son to hold his one-half part of- the estate-…

2Cases cited26 opinions

  1. Britt EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1952
  2. City of Philadelphia v. Heirs of GirardSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1863
  3. Rosengarten EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1944
  4. Wardens & Vestry of St. Paul's Church v. Attorney GeneralMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1895
  5. Clark EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1948

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