Williams's Appeals
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals from the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia county: Of January Term 1877, No. 51, 52. These were appeals of Jacob T. Williams from the decree of the court in the matter of the trust estates of Hannah W. Sterling. The appellant, Jacob T. Williams, is the brother and trustee of said Hannah W. Sterling, under the wills of her father, Thomas Williams, and her sister, Mary Williams.
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Appeals from the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia county: Of January Term 1877, No. 51, 52. These were appeals of Jacob T. Williams from the decree of the court in the matter of the trust estates of Hannah W. Sterling. The appellant, Jacob T. Williams, is the brother and trustee of said Hannah W. Sterling, under the wills of her father, Thomas Williams, and her sister, Mary Williams. The two trust estates were blended together for convenience by the auditor and by the court below; a special appeal, however, was taken, out in each case. The appellant, as trustee in said two estates, filed his…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Agnew
It is to be regretted that these two trusts have been blended in the proceeding below. To this we must attribute the remarkable confusion, by the learned auditor and the court, of two trusts so *388different from each other in marked characteristics. It seems the report awaited the decision in Earp’s Appeal, 25 P. F. Smith 119, but the learned auditor thought it afforded no guide; quoting that sentence in the opinion in which it is said the interpretation of the language of wills must vary with the intention of the testator, as “ precluding the attempt to discern any such guide.” The criticism…
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