ABEL et al. v. GIRARD TRUST CO. et al.


365 Pa. 34 (1950)

Abel et al., Trustees, v. Girard Trust Company, Trustee (et al., Appellant).

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

May 22, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Morris Hamilton, with him James Rick, 3rd, David B. Skillman, Calvin F. Smith, Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll and Smith, Paff, Van Sickle & Gafford, for appellant.

J. Lawrence Davis, with him Sullivan Cistone, for appellees.

Before DREW, C.J., STERN, STEARNE, JONES and BELL, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ALLEN M. STEARNE, May 22, 1950:

This is an appeal in a quia timet proceeding. The court below decreed that the plaintiffs-trustees were the owners in fee of the real estate in question.

On July 22, 1925, L. Renton Brown and others (grantors), for the consideration of $4,000, conveyed real estate in the Borough of Bangor, Pennsylvania, to a corporation of the first class, not for profit...

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