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SPROUL-BOLTON v. SPROUL-BOLTON

383 Pa. 85 (1955)

Sproul-Bolton v. Sproul-Bolton, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

November 14, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Arensberg, with him Charles B. Jarrett, Jr., A.E. Kountz, W.A. Meyer, Edward P. Good, Patterson, Crawford, Arensberg & Dunn, and Kountz, Fry & Meyer, for First National Bank & Trust Company, appellant.

Edward P. Good, with him A.E. Kountz, and Kountz, Fry & Meyer, for Sproul-Bolton, appellant.

Edmund K. Trent, with him Carl E. Glock, and Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, for appellee.

Before STERN, C.J., STEARNE, JONES, MUSMANNO and ARNOLD, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HORACE STERN, November 14, 1955:

Was the corpus of the spendthrift trust here involved immune from attachment by a creditor of the beneficiary after the latter had become entitled to receive it but before it had been paid to him by the trustee? That is the sole question on this appeal.

Elizabeth Howe Sproul, who died in 1934, created a testamentary trust as to a portion of her estate which she bequeathed to trustees in trust to...

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