Legal Opinion

Collopy's Estate

Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County

Decided June 30, 1938No. 3381 of 1937Published

1Opinion of the Court

Sinkler, J.,

— The exceptions relate to the finding by the auditing judge that the deposit of money belonged to the estate of the beneficiary and not to the estate of the depositor. The facts are related in the adjudication. We hold that the exceptions be sustained and that the fund be awarded to the personal representatives of the estate of William Collopy.

The decision of this court in Pozzuto’s Estate, 25 D. & C. 235, was sustained by the Superior Court, 124 Pa. Superior Ct. 93, in an opinion by Baldrige, J. There will be found a discussion of the attributes of the so-called tentative trust.…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. In Re the Accounting of TottenNew York Court of Appeals · 1904
  2. Scanlon's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1933
  3. Pozzuto's EstateSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1936
  4. In re the Judicial Settlement of the Account of Proceedings of the United States Trust Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1907
  5. In re the Judicial Settlement of the Intermediate Account of DuffyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1908

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