Legal Opinion

Houston Estate

Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County

Decided December 10, 1962No. 5Published

1Opinion of the Court

Klein, P. J.,

— Henry H. Houston died on June 21, 1895, leaving a will by item fifty-ninth of which he devised and bequeathed his residuary estate to his executors, in trust for the payment of annuities in varying amounts to certain named cousins and the children of another cousin. By paragraphs seventh to fifteenth, inclusive, and by paragraph twelfth of said item fifty-ninth, testator after the death of respective annuitants, provided for gifts over in remainder in similar, almost identical, language in each case, as will be more fully recited hereinafter. The will also contained gifts of…

2Cases cited57 opinions

  1. Newlin EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1951
  2. Burleigh EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1961
  3. Atlantic Refining Co. v. Wyoming National BankSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1946
  4. Byrne's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1935
  5. Carstensen's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1900

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