TOWNSEND WILL


430 Pa. 318 (1968)

Townsend Will. Townsend Trust.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

April 16, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Eichman, 3rd, with him Henry I. Koplin, Elvin R. Souder, and Clark, Spahr, Eichman & Yardley, for appellant.

Philip A. Bregy, with him William M. Marutani, Thomas S. Weary, Joseph Neff Ewing, and MacCoy, Evans & Lewis, for appellees.

J. Brooke Aker, Arthur C. Dorrance, Jr., and Smith, Aker, Grossman & Hollinger, and Dechert, Price & Rhoads, for appellees.

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


OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BELL, April 16, 1968:

Mary Hanlon Townsend died October 1, 1965, leaving her last will, dated June 14, 1965, and an inter vivos Trust Deed, dated July 11, 1963, which was thereafter thrice amended. Mary Townsend Cochran, decedent's niece by marriage, has appealed to this Court from the several decrees (actually one decree which covered several subjects) of the Orphans' Court, which sustained decedent...

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