Estate of Rowland
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY RACHEL BOMEISLER EROM THE ORPHANS’ COURT OE PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. January Term 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 864 April Term 1888, O. C. On April 28, 1890, the Fidelity Insurance, Trust & Safe Deposit Co., filed a second account as trustee under the will of Paltiall S. Rowland, deceased, exhibiting for distribution a balance of income in the hands of the accountant.
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APPEAL BY RACHEL BOMEISLER EROM THE ORPHANS’ COURT OE PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. January Term 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 864 April Term 1888, O. C. On April 28, 1890, the Fidelity Insurance, Trust & Safe Deposit Co., filed a second account as trustee under the will of Paltiall S. Rowland, deceased, exhibiting for distribution a balance of income in the hands of the accountant. The account being called for audit, before Ashman, J., the following facts were found: The testator died in 1887. By his will, dated January 10, 1885, he bequeathed and devised his residuary estate to his wife, Abigail…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Williams:
Rowland, the testator, died in 1887. By the terms of his will he gave his entire estate, real and personal, to his wife for her life. Upon her death, the dwelling-house and household goods wore to go to his daughter Delia during her life, but the rest of his estate he gave to the trustees upon the following trusts:
1. To invest the personal estate, and collect the income thereof, and to collect the rents, issues, and profits of his real estate.
2. To pay out of the income so provided the sum of two *560thousand five hundred dollars per annum to Delia during her life,…
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