BALD ESTATE


385 Pa. 176 (1956)

Bald Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

May 1, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander Black and John G. Buchanan, with them Robert E. Mertz, Frank W. Ittel, Smith, Buchanan, Ingersoll, Rodewald & Eckert, and Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, for appellants.

James M. Houston, with him Adie Allen Stevens, II, and Rose, Rose & Houston; also Stephen C. Thayer and Baker, Hostetler & Patterson, of the Cleveland Bar, and Raymond V. Haun and Macfarlane, Schaefer & Haun, of the Los Angeles Bar, for appellees.

J.T. Conner, for appellee.

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


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE BELL, May 1, 1956:

We adopt the following excerpts from the very able opinion of the Auditing Judge, President Judge BOYLE:

"The question presented in the audit of the two accounts now before the Court is whether the will of the testator bequeathed to the residuary remaindermen an interest which vested at the death of the testator or an interest contingent upon their surviving the testator's aunt, Kate Bald, the life tenant of the residuary...

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