DRAVO ESTATE (NO. 2)

No. 1149 A1 of 1942.

16 Pa. D. & C. 2d 106 (1957)

Dravo Estate (No. 2)

Common Pleas Court of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

December 6, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William F. Knox and Davis C. Burroughs, Jr., for trustees.

James H. Gray and Richard B. Tucker, Jr., for claimants.


BOYLE, P. J., December 6, 1957.

The question which is before the court for determination in the audits of three separate accounts in two inter vivos trusts and a testamentary trust containing identical trust provisions for the benefit of Donald Pettit, his widow and issue, is whether the said provision violates the common law rule against perpetuities, the three trusts having been created prior to January 1, 1948, the effective date of the Estates Act of April 24...

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