Legal Opinion
Turner's Estate
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided November 23, 1922No. Appeals, Nos. 232, 233 and 234PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Linn, J.,
This appeal challenges the refusal to approve a national bank as a fiduciary. Approval was denied on the single ground that the federal legislation conferring fiduciary powers on national banks is “in contravention of the law and established practice of this Commonwealth.”
The question arose in distributing the estate of Edna Frisbie Turner, deceased, letters testamentary having been granted in 1920. Her minor children were beneficiaries under her will. In 1921 the court below appointed the Rittenhouse Trust Company, a corporation of Pennsylvania, guardian of the éstates of…
Also in this document: Dissent.
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