Legal Opinion

McClain Estate

Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Fulton County

Decided September 6, 1949No. 5Published

1Opinion of the Court

Sheely, P. J.,

Dr. H.C. McClain died leaving a will wherein he made certain pecuniary bequests totaling $21,000 to relatives and others, and then bequeathed and devised the residue of his estate to his widow. From the residue (which we are told amounted to approximately $42,000) he directed that “$21,000 to be held in trust by Chambersburg Trust Co. and the income thereon to be paid to my wife during her lifetime or until she remarries at her death or remarriage to be paid to all the heirs above in the same ratio as above mentioned which would be double the amounts named above making the…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Stafford's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1917
  2. Culbertson's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1874
  3. Sharpless's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1892
  4. Buch's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1923
  5. Slater's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1919

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