Legal Opinion

Williamson Estate

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided June 27, 1951No. Appeals, 235 and 253Published

1Opinion of the Court

368 Pa. 343 (1951)

Williamson Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Argued November 16, 1950.

Reargued May 24, 1951.

June 27, 1951.

Before DREW, C.J., STERN, STEARNE, JONES, BELL and CHIDSEY, JJ.

Thomas B.K. Ringe, with him John R. McConnell and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, for appellant.

W. Albert Sanders, for appellee.

Morris Duane, with him Maurice Heckscher and Duane, Morris & Heckscher, for T. Williams Roberts, Trustee, amicus curiae.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ALLEN M. STEARNE, June 27, 1951:

A corporate fiduciary presents a "test case" seeking to induce this Court to overrule a long line of cases…

2Cases cited41 opinions

  1. Willcox v. Penn Mutual Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1947
  2. Crawford EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1949
  3. Orlosky v. HaskellSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1931
  4. Martin EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1950
  5. Demorest v. City Bank Farmers Trust Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1944

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