BENSON ESTATE


86 Pa. D. & C. 215 (1953)

Benson Estate

Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

December 11, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph K. Gordon, Boyd L. Spahr, Jr., Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, John Grier Bartol, Jr., Ernest Scott, Pepper, Bodine, Stokes & Hamilton, for exceptants.

Richard K. Stevens, Stradley, Ronon, Stevens & Young, contra.

Before Klein, P.J., Bolger, Hunter, Lefever, Saylor and Shoyer, JJ.


The facts appear from the following extracts from the adjudication of

LEFEVER, J., Auditing Judge.

The fund accounted for pertains to the trust created under the first item of the second codicil, dated March 15, 1898, to the will of Harriet S. Benson, who died September 3, 1902, whereby, inter alia, she revoked the bequest of $25,000 to the Christ Memorial Church (which legacy she had directed to be added to...

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