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SCOTT ESTATE

418 Pa. 332 (1965)

Scott Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

June 30, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Lathrop and William H.S. Wells, with them Samuel S. Logan, Jr., and Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, and Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul, for appellants.

Philip A. Bregy, with him Herbert Bass, and MacCoy, Evans & Lewis, for Children's Hospital, appellee.

James L. Price, Special Assistant Attorney General, Charles A. Woods, Jr., Deputy Attorney General, and Walter E. Alessandroni, Attorney General, for Commonwealth as parens patriae for charitable trusts.

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

OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BELL, June 30, 1965:

Alexander H. Scott died May 11, 1940. He left a will and two codicils in which he appointed as executors and trustees his brother, John M. Scott, his wife, Helen Struthers Scott, and the Girard Trust Company, now called the Girard Trust Bank. Scott gave his residuary estate to his trustees, in trust to pay the net income to his wife for her life, with succeeding contingent life interests to certain members of his family...

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