STEELE ESTATE


377 Pa. 250 (1954)

Steele Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 24, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas B.K. Ringe, with him Miles W. Kirkpatrick, David B. Skillman and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, for appellants.

William White, Jr., with him Edward J. For, Jr., Fox & Oldt, Sanford D. Beecher and Duane, Morris & Heckscher, for appellee.

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


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE BELL, March 24, 1954:

Three charities which are remaindermen under Mr. Steele's will vigorously contend that a stock dividend which is admittedly income should not be distributed to the life tenant but should be retained in the trust, and its equivalent in cash be distributed to the life tenant.

H.J. Steele died March 19, 1933. He created 5 other trusts in his will in which he clearly disclosed that his wife and daughter were the primary...

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