Estate of Lawrence
Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County
No. 118 January Term, 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 53 April Term 1889, O. C. On April 20,1889, on petition of Ann E. A. Griffin, the court below awarded a citation to Elizabeth H. Appleton and others, requiring the respondents to show cause why the Union Trust Company should not be appointed trustee under the will of John Lawrence, deceased, in accordance with an appointment prescribed by the will of Ann Appleton, deceased, in pursuance of provisions contained in the…
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No. 118 January Term, 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 53 April Term 1889, O. C. On April 20,1889, on petition of Ann E. A. Griffin, the court below awarded a citation to Elizabeth H. Appleton and others, requiring the respondents to show cause why the Union Trust Company should not be appointed trustee under the will of John Lawrence, deceased, in accordance with an appointment prescribed by the will of Ann Appleton, deceased, in pursuance of provisions contained in the will first mentioned. On May 6, 1889, a supplemental petition was filed, whereupon the court directed that a citation issue…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Clark :
John Lawrence died domiciled in the city of Philadelphia, in the month of March, 1847. By his last will and testament he devised all his real and personal estate to certain persons therein named, in trust, to pay over the net income, during her lifetime, to his daughter, Ann Appleton; to assign the real estate, upon her decease, in fee to the appointees of her last will; or, failing such appointment, to pay over the same to and amongst her then living children, and the issue of children then deceased.
The trustees named in the will were removed by the Orphans’ Court…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- Appeal of CogginsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1889
- Mifflin v. MifflinSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1888
- Smith's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1879
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