HAMILTON ESTATE


454 Pa. 495 (1973)

Hamilton Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

November 26, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph J. McAllister, with him McAllister & McAllister, for appellants.

Leo M. Brewster, for appellees.

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


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE POMEROY, November 26, 1973:

This case concerns the distribution of a testamentary trust created by the will of Edith Y. Hamilton. Testatrix died on October 21, 1943, and by Paragraph Six of her will dated January 2, 1942, gave $10,000 to Oil City National Bank, now Northwest Pennsylvania Bank and Trust Company, in trust, to pay the income therefrom to her niece, Ella Weidle Kerr, for life.

Paragraph Six(e) provides as follows: "Upon...

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