Hart Estate
Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Dauphin County
1Opinion of the Court
Richards, P. J.,
Lane S. Hart died testate in 1924. By paragraph seven of his will the bulk of his estate was placed in a trust. Paragraph 7(a) gave one-sixth of the income of the trust to decedent’s son, Christopher H. Hart, for life. After his death both income and corpus were ultimately to go “to his child or children of his blood and born of his body (not including any adopted child or children)”. Failing such, both income and corpus “shall be disposed of with respect to persons and interests as *740though it were part of the estate disposed of in Paragraph (d) of Section seven of this will”.
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2Cases cited2 opinions
- Shareff's EstateSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1940
- Peters v. PetersSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1932