BROWN ESTATE


408 Pa. 214 (1962)

Brown Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

July 6, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Kearns, Jr., for appellant.

F. Hastings Griffin, Jr., with him Edward R. Carpenter, Robert B. Greer, Charles Myers, and Dechert, Price & Rhoads, for trustee, appellee.

Mercer D. Tate, with him William H. Lathrop, and Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, for appellee.

William White, Jr., with him Martin A. Heckscher, and Duane, Morris & Heckscher, for income beneficiaries, under Rule 65.

Paul Maloney, Peter Hearn, Richard L. Freeman, and Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, for life tenant, under Rule 65.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN and O'BRIEN, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BELL, July 6, 1962:

Several perplexing and very important questions are raised by this appeal. The appeal was taken by the Guardian and Trustee ad litem,* appointed to represent minor and unborn contingent remaindermen, from the Decree of the Orphans' Court of Delaware County which dismissed certain exceptions filed by the Guardian to the Fifth account of the trustee of this estate.

Decedent died July...

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