Curran's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Frazer,

These two appeals will be disposed of together. They are from a decree of the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia County awarding the income from the residuary estate of Dr. William Curran to Wilson College for the uses and trusts declared in his last will and codicils. Testator died in 1880, survived by his wife and three brothers but no children. Soon after his death, his brothers attacked the will on the ground that the trust established therein violated the rule against perpetuities; its validity, however, was sustained in Curran’s Est., 4 Penny-packer 331…