ESTATE OF ZERBEY


481 Pa. 374 (1978)

392 A.2d 1340

ESTATE of Joseph Henry ZERBEY, Deceased. Appeal of Alice J. JONES, Substitute Appellant at No. 445. Appeal of Mildred Zerbey LAZARUS, Johanne Zerbey Martz, Margaretta Lazarus Paduch and Uzal H. Martz, Jr., Beneficiaries under the Will of Joseph Henry Zerbey, Deceased.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided October 5, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Grant Sprecher, Walter E. Nelson, Jr., Philadelphia, for appellants at No. 458 and appellees at No. 445.

William J. Krencewicz, Shenandoah, for appellee, Elizabeth Zerbey Martz.

J. Brooke Aker, Norristown, for appellee, Malcolm D. Reeves, Guardian Trustee ad litem.

John B. McGurl, Jr., Pottsville, for appellees at Nos. 445 and 458.

James D. Crawford, Philadelphia, for appellee at No. 458.


OPINION

NIX, Justice.

These appeals are by the surviving trustees and by some of the trust beneficiaries from the denial of a change of venue and from the appointment of successor trustees by the Schuylkill County Court of Common Pleas, Orphans' Court Division. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 42 Pa.C.S. § 722(3) (1977). We affirm the lower court.

Joseph Henry Zerbey died in 1933 and by will created three trusts. Each trust was to have the same...

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