Edwards Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Bell,

These are appeals by named legatees from the final decree of the Orphans’ Court of Indiana County affirming the auditor’s report which held that the will violated the rule against perpetuities and directed the testamentary trustee to distribute the entire corpus of the estate to the testator’s heirs at law.

Testator, a bachelor without issue, died on January 29, 1938, leaving, under Paragraph Third of his will, a life estate in Mrs. Mary E. Edwards, who died on September 25, 1957. The trustee filed a first and partial account. Paragraph Fourth creates the…