AUDENRIED ESTATE

No. 3092 of 1952.

84 Pa. D. & C. 468 (1953)

Audenried Estate

Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

June 19, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and MacCoy, Evans & Lewis, for exceptants.

Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll and Edmonds, Obermayer & Rebmann, contra.

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


BOLGER, J., June 19, 1953.

The Pennsylvania Proration Act of July 2, 1937, P.L. 2762, 20 PS § 844, provides that the United States estate tax shall be equitably prorated "except in a case where a testator otherwise directs in his will". The single question is whether testatrix has so otherwise directed.

After providing pecuniary legacies in varying amounts to individuals, to the Philadelphia Bar Association, to charities and for a cemetery trust, testatrix...

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