HOUSTON ESTATE

January term, 1896, no. 5.

32 Pa. D. & C. 2d 215 (1963)

Houston Estate

Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County.

December 10, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, John Russell, Jr., and Grubb, Guest & Littleton, Frederick C. N. Littleton, for accountants.

Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, James A. Montgomery, Jr., Paul Maloney, Cuthbert H. Latta, Jr., John E. Walsh, Jr., Charles J. Biddle, for exceptants.

Stradley, Ronon, Stevens & Young, Richard K. Stevens, contra.

Irvin Stander, for Commonwealth.

Sidney Salkin, Drew J. T. O'Keefe, John G. Penn, Louis F. Oberdorfer, for United States.

Before Klein, P. J., Bolger, Lefever, Saylor, Shoyer and Burke, JJ.


KLEIN, P. J., December 10, 1962.

Henry H. Houston died on June 21, 1895, leaving a will by item fifty-ninth of which he devised and bequeathed his residuary estate to his executors, in trust for the payment of annuities in varying amounts to certain named cousins and the children of another cousin. By paragraphs seventh to fifteenth, inclusive, and by paragraph twelfth of said item fifty-ninth, testator after the death of respective annuitants, provided for gifts...

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