EDMUNDS ESTATE


374 Pa. 22 (1953)

Edmunds Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

May 27, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley L. Thornton, with him C. Gilpin Gibbon and Witney & Thornton, for Girard Trust Corn Exchange Bank, appellant.

John W. Dawson, Jr., for John Shahedy, appellant.

Grover C. Ladner, with him Frank W. Melvin, Owen Biddle, Joseph J. Tunney and Clark, Ladner, Fortenbaugh & Young, for appellees.

Before STERN, C.J., STEARNE, JONES, BELL, CHIDSEY, MUSMANNO and ARNOLD, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ALLEN M. STEARNE, May 27, 1953:

In this will construction we are required to determine whether a gift in remainder is vested or contingent. The court below, one judge dissenting, held that the remainder was contingent.

Testator's residuary estate was placed in trust to pay the net income to three named children for life and upon the death of each named child: "to convey, transfer, assign...

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