Borsch Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Allen M. Stearne,

This is an appeal from the confirmation of an adjudication of an executors’ account in the orphans’ court. The question is the power of a court to terminate existing testamentary spendthrift trusts because of'■the renunciation, disclaimer and release by the life tenant in accordance with the Act of May 28, 1943, P. L. 797, amended by the Act of June 1, 1945, P. L. 1337, 68 PS, 581 et seq. (These Acts have since been rewritten and reenacted in part by the Estates Act of April 24, 1947, P. L. 100 section 3, 20 PS 301.3).

The Act of 1945, supra, provides:…