Horner v. First Pennsylvania Banking & Trust Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Bell,

The First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Company appeals from a final Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County dismissing appellant’s preliminary objections raising the question of that Court’s jurisdiction over the action.

Appellant was testamentary trustee under the will of Adelaide C. Henderson, who died in 1910. By her will she divided her residuary estate into four equal parts. She bequeathed (a) one of these parts to her son George outright and absolutely, and (b) the remaining three parts to appellant, in trust for the lives of three other…