McCREA ESTATE


78 Pa. D. & C. 145 (1951)

McCrea Estate

Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

November 2, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William P. Heuchert, Louis Jacobs, Thomas W. Weary, Maurice Heckscher, Walter Y. Anthony, W. LeRoy McKinley, Frederick R. Drayton, Jr., Roland C. Heisler, and Drinker, Biddle & Reath, for exceptants.

William Carson Bodine, Pepper, Bodine, Stokes & Hamilton, Sidney L. Wickenhaver, William H. Lathrop, Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, Cuthbert H. Latta, and Barnes, Dechert, Price, Myers & Clark, contra.

Before Sinkler, P.J., Klein, Bolger, Hunter and Lefever, JJ.


The facts appear from the following extracts from the adjudication of

SINKLER, P.J., Auditing Judge.

Charles McCrea died June 24, 1883, and the trust arises under his will, by which he gave his residuary estate to his trustee, in trust for his wife and two daughters for life, and further provided for distribution of the principal on their deaths.

The reason for filing the account, as set forth in the statement of proposed distribution, is the death...

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