ERVIN ESTATE


367 Pa. 58 (1951)

Ervin Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 19, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Winfield Baile, with him George W. Thompson, for appellants.

Norman J. Kalcheim, with him C. William Kraft, for appellee.

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


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ALLEN M. STEARNE, March 19, 1951:

The appeals relate to a construction of a will. The single question is whether testatrix intended to pass the corpus, in remainder, for a charitable purpose and failed to appoint a trustee, 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...

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