Equitable Trust Co. v. Snader

The Chancellor.

The question which I raised at the conclusion of the former opinion filed in this cause was whether or not there was such an identity between the corpus of the life estates in the Henry S. McComb property and the remainders in fee therein as would permit the operation of the doctrine of merger to the fullest extent. This question was based on the thought that inasmuch as the life estates were created in four separate trusts, the corpus of each of which appeared to be different from any other, and the four estates in remainder were joint estates in each of those trusts, it might…