MEARKLE ESTATE

No. 3481 of 1936.

23 Pa. D. & C. 2d 661 (1960)

Mearkle Estate

Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

June 3, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads and W. H. Lathrop, for accountant.

Robert A. Webster, George V. Strong and William G. Ferguson, for claimants.

Daniel I. Murphy, p. p., trustee ad litem.

Ralph C. Donohoe, for Commonwealth.


BOLGER, J., June 3, 1960.

Decedent died February 20, 1936. This trust arose under his will dated August 25, 1934, a copy of which is annexed.

Testator gave his residuary estate in trust to pay three-fourths of the income to his widow, Charlotte H. Mearkle, for life, and the remaining one-fourth of income to his adopted daughter, Alice Mearkle Satterthwaite, for life. Upon the death of his widow, which occurred...

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