Estate of Schwenk

HOFFMAN, Judge:

The sole issue on appeal is whether the trustee’s fees at issue are to be paid out of the principal or the income of a trust created under the testatrix’s will. Because we find that the trustee’s fees were properly charged against the principal, we affirm the order of the court below.

On June 6, 1949, the testatrix, Ethel K. Schwenk, died leaving a will dated August 28, 1947. Testatrix bequeathed her residuary estate to the Girard Trust Company (now, Girard Bank), in trust, to pay the net income to her sister, Gertrude T. Kauffman, for life, and, upon her sister’s death, to…