THOMPSON ESTATE

No. 658 of 1963.

30 Pa. D. & C. 2d 362 (1963)

Thompson Estate

Common Pleas Court of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

June 20, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cuthbert H. Latta and Smith, Best & Horn, for accountants.

John W. Pollins, guardian ad litem.


COPELAND, P. J., June 20, 1963.

The question before the court concerns the right of an adopted child to share in the income under the fourth paragraph of decedent's will.

Marion Gordon Thompson died May 27, 1956, leaving her will dated September 20, 1950, and a codicil thereto dated February 12, 1953.

By article fourth of her will, Mrs. Thompson placed one-half of her residuary estate in trust and directed, inter alia, as follows:

"A. If my...

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