Legal Opinion
Boswell's Estate
Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County
Decided April 5, 1940No. 117Published
1Opinion of the Court
Ladner, J.,
By paragraph four of her will, decedent bequeathed one fourth of her estate in trust to pay the income to her daughter-in-law, Elizabeth R. Boswell, and her two children, Mary R. Boswell (after-wards Collins) and John Iverson Boswell, in equal shares during their lives. Then follow the provisions concerning which the controversy here arises, viz.:
“At the death of one, to pay the income equally to the other two, at the death of two to pay the survivor the entire income; at the death of all three to divide the principal into three equal parts, one of which shall be assigned to the…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Grothe's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1910
- Dutilh's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1926
- Card's Estate (No. 1)Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1939
- Dutilh's EstateSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1922