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COCHRAN ESTATE

No. 527.

7 Pa. D. & C. 3d 359 (1978)

Cochran Estate

Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, O.C. Division, Pennsylvania.

July 20, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward M. David, of Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul, for accountants.

Alan Reeve Hunt, of Duane, Morris & Heckscher, L. Pierre Teillon, Jr., of Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, and G. Selden Pitt, of Clark, Ladner, Fortenbaugh & Young, for charitable beneficiaries.

Philip A. Bregy, of Drinker, Biddle & Reath, for trustees of appointed trusts.

Lawrence Barth, for the Commonwealth as parens patriae for charities.

KLEIN, C.J., July 20, 1978.

Mary N. Cochran died November 26, 1921, leaving a will which granted a general power of appointment over her residuary trust to her sister, Fanny T. Cochran. By writing dated February 17, 1950, Fanny T. Cochran limited her power of appointment as to $250,000 of her sister's trust but retained her general power of appointment over the balance.

The terms of decedent's will need not be recited as the dispositive provisions contained...

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