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PICKERING ESTATE

No. 33,032.

16 Pa. D. & C. 2d 319 (1958)

Pickering Estate

Common Pleas Court of Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

February 21, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hale Pratt and I. J. and D. W. Van Artsdalen, for accountant.

Harriet M. Mims, guardian ad litem for Brian Joseph Lockhart and Mary Caroline Lockhart, minors, and trustee ad litem for unborn or unascertained persons.

Charles J. Biddle, Philip Wallis, Samuel S. Gray, Jr., John Bishop, 4th, Arthur E. Newbold, 3d, William J. Begley, Frederick E. Smith, Francis M. Richards, Jr., and William Carson Bodine, for claimants.

SATTERTHWAITE, J., February 21, 1958.

The construction of certain clauses of decedent's will raises the problems presently before the court. The executor having filed a partial account, the court appointed an auditor to construe the testamentary language. To his report, exceptions were filed and argued before the court en banc. These exceptions raise two fundamental problems: (1) Who are the beneficiaries of subparagraph (b) of the eighth item of the will; and (2...

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