TAFEL ESTATE


449 Pa. 442 (1972)

Tafel Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

November 17, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward L. Snitzer, with him Leon I. Mesirov, and Mesirov, Gelman, Jaffe & Levin, for appellants.

H. Ober Hess and James Francis Lawler, with them Frederic W. Clark, Bruce L. Castor, Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, and Ostroff & Lawler, for appellees.

Before JONES, C.J., EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, NIX and MANDERINO, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE JONES, November 17, 1972:

On July 7, 1935, Adolph Tafel (testator) died. On February 2, 1935, he had executed his will in which he created a trust. Under that trust, testator's widow was to receive the income during her life and, upon her death, the corpus of the trust was to be divided in four equal shares for the benefit of his four named children, each child to receive the income from one such share during his or her life and, upon...

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