Legal Opinion

Child Estate

Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County

Decided November 4, 1957No. 3055Published

1Opinion of the Court

Lefever, J.,

Testator died February 15, 1929, leaving a will, dated April 28, 1925, and two codicils thereto, dated April 24, 1928, all of which were duly probated. Letters testamentary were granted to Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company, the executor and trustee named in the will.

Testator, after disposing of his tangible personal property, gave his residuary estate in trust for the benefit of his two sisters, Mary B. Child, who predeceased testator, and Caroline T. Howland, his two nephews, Llewellyn Howland and Edward Morris How-land, and the issue of the nephews, as more specifically…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. City Bank Farmers Trust Co. v. CannonNew York Court of Appeals · 1943
  2. National City Bank v. SquireOhio Supreme Court · 1941
  3. Barker's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1894
  4. Greenawalt's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1941
  5. Robison v. Elston Bank & Trust Co.Indiana Court of Appeals · 1943

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