Ervin Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
MR. Justice Állen M. Stearne,
The appeals relate to a construction of a will. The single question is whethe’r testatrix intended to pass the corpus, in remainder, for a charitable purpose and failed to appoint a trusteej or whether her intent was to give the corpus to an institution but failed to name such institution thereby causing an intestacy.
Testatrix died January 22, 1941, leaving to survive as her heirs and next of Mn, a son and three grandchildren, children of a deceased daughter. Under the will the net estate was placed in trust to pay one fourth of the income to the son for…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Carmany EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1947
- Friend's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1904
- Verner EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1947
- March EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1947
- Mulert EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1948
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Girt EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1973
- Hartley EstatePennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County · 1958