VANDERGRIFT ESTATE


406 Pa. 14 (1962)

Vandergrift Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

January 2, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clyde W. Armstrong, with him Thorp, Reed & Armstrong, for administrator d.b.n., appellant.

Frank W. Ittel, with him G. Donald Gerlach, and Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, for executors and trustees, appellants.

Tice F. Ryan, Jr., with him Wayland S. Bowser, Walter M. Newman, and Ryan, Newman, Geer & Goldring, for Marjorie Holmes Vandergrift, appellant.

William McC. Houston, with him Fred C. Houston, Jr., Armin H. Friedman, and Houston & Houston, for executrix, appellant.

John G. Buchanan, Jr., with him John G. Buchanan, Rex Rowland, and Buchanan, Ingersoll, Rodewald, Kyle & Buerger, for Helen B. Mercer, Alice V. Gordon and Virginia Summerlin Sullivan, appellants.

William H. Eckert, with him W. Gregg Kerr, Jr., and Eckert, Seamans & Cherin, for Virginia Spencer Estate, and Carl Brandt, guardian and trustee ad litem, appellees, and Carl Brandt, as guardian and trustee ad litem, appellees.

Adie Allen Stevens, II, with him Frank A. McFerran, Jr., and Kenney, Stevens, Hill & Clark, for administrator of estate of John M. Vandergrift, appellee.

Henry C. Herchenroether, Jr., with him Alter, Wright & Barron, for trustee in bankruptcy for J. Jay Vandergrift, appellee.

John C. Hanna, with him Metz, Cook, Hanna & Kelly, for Pittsburgh National Bank, surviving trustee, appellee.

Tice F. Ryan, Jr., Wayland S. Bowser, Walter M. Newman, and Ryan, Newman, Geer and Goldring, for Marjorie Holmes Vandergrift, appellee.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN and ALPERN, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE BENJAMIN R. JONES, January 2, 1962:

J.J. Vandergrift, a resident of Pittsburgh, died testate on December 26, 1899, survived by his second wife and five children.1

Vandergrift's will — obviously lawyer-drawn — provided, inter alia: (1) the first seven articles dispose of specific pieces of property and set forth the treatment of claims and advancements...

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