Dobbins Estate

Hunter, J.,

Mary A. Dobbins died January 27,1929, and by the twenty-fourth paragraph of her will, in the exercise of a power conferred by the will of her brother, Edward T. Dobbins, she appointed legacies aggregating $2,020,000 to the Pennsylvania Company, etc., in perpetual trust for 27 charitable and religious institutions. One of these trusts (subparagraph XXIII) was of $100,000 “to pay the net income to the Kensington Hospital for Women, to be used for free beds in said Hospital and to be known as the ‘Edward T. Dobbins Fund’ ”. The several legacies suffered an abatement to 93 percent…