KEFFALAS ESTATE


426 Pa. 432 (1967)

Keffalas Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

September 26, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gilbert J. Helwig, with him Jonathan L. Alder, John L. Wilson, and Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, for appellants.

Lee C. McCandless, with him McCandless & McCandless, for appellees.

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


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE O'BRIEN, September 26, 1967:

The instant appeal is from the final decree of the Orphans' Court of Butler County. The portions of the decree appealed from are those which: (1) Invalidate as against public policy conditions on gifts to the testator's children contingent on their marrying spouses of "true Greek blood and descent and of Orthodox religion". (2) Deny a $12,500 credit taken by the executors...

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