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BENSON ESTATE

447 Pa. 62 (1971)

Benson Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

December 20, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen H. Hutzelman, Attorney, Tax Division, with him Meyer Rothwacks, Crombie J.D. Garrett, Attorneys, Tax Division, Johnnie M. Walters, Assistant Attorney General, Barry W. Kerchner, Assistant United States Attorney, and Louis C. Bechtle, United States Attorney, for appellant.

Cuthbert H. Latta, with him M. Paul Smith, Stanley B. Cooper, Smith, Aker, Grossman & Hollinger, Drinker, Biddle & Reath, and Waters, Fleer, Cooper & Gallager, for appellees.

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

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, December 20, 1971:

A controversy concerning the provisions of the deed of trust of Joseph N. Pew, Jr., presents us with the narrow but always perplexing question of whether the trust instrument created vested or contingent interests in each of the settlor's four children if and when they attained the age of thirty-two. We hold the interests vested.

Joseph N. Pew, Jr., created several inter vivos trusts on June 1, 1932, which...

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