TOWNSEND WILL


436 Pa. 185 (1969)

Townsend Will.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

November 11, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur A. Moorshead, with him Moorshead & Niccolo, for appellant.

Philip A. Bregy, with him MacCoy, Evans & Lewis, for appellees.

Joseph Neff Ewing, with him Arthur C. Dorrance, Jr., J. Brooke Aker, Thomas S. Weary, and Dechert, Price & Rhoads, and Smith, Aker, Grossman & Hollinger, and Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul, for appellees.

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


OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BELL, November 11, 1969:

Mary H. Townsend died on October 1, 1965, leaving a last will dated June 14, 1965. Prior to her death, she had created an inter vivos deed of trust dated July 11, 1963, which was subsequently amended on February 20, 1964, March 6, 1964 and June 14, 1965. Mary Townsend Cochran, who is testatrix's niece by marriage,* evidently disappointed in...

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