SMITH ESTATE


435 Pa. 258 (1969)

Smith Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

June 27, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Larrimer, with him Dougherty, Larrimer, Lee & Hickton, for appellant.

Harold R. Schmidt, with him Evans Rose, Jr., Henry McC. Ingram, and Rose, Schmidt and Dixon, for appellees.

George R. Craig, with him George Wilson McKeag and William McC. Houston, for appellees.

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


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, June 27, 1969:

Samuel H. Smith, the brother of decedent (Laura Floyd Smith) died in 1962, leaving one-half of his estate to decedent and the other half in trust, the Union National Bank of Pittsburgh to act as trustee. The trust gave income to decedent for life, then income to Verner S. Purnell, the nephew of decedent and Samuel, for life, with the principal in equal shares to four named charities at the death of the survivor.

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