Legal Opinion

Hope Estate

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided March 22, 1960No. Appeals, 220, 276 and 277PublishedCited by 61 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Bell,

S. Emma P. Hope died on April 13, 1914, leaving no children or issue to survive her. By her v/ill she gave, devised and bequeathed her residuary estate to her trastees on three separate trusts: A trust to pay the income * to her sister, Annie J. Thompson, for her life; another trust to pay the income* to her niece, Helen Thompson Theobald, for her life; and another trust to pay the income* to her niece, Lillian Pennell Thompson Walls, for her life. Mrs. Hope’s sister, Annie J. Thompson, died February 19, 1937, leaving to survive her two children, Helen Thompson…

2Cases cited21 opinions

  1. Britt EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1952
  2. Newlin EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1951
  3. Kiebler v. McCutcheonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1921
  4. Carstensen's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1900
  5. Beisgen EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1956

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3Cited by61 opinions

  1. Burleigh EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1961
  2. Houston EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1964
  3. Dinkey EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1961
  4. Gregg v. GardnerNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1963
  5. Lewis EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1962

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