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BEHAN ESTATE

399 Pa. 314 (1960)

Behan Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 22, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel L. Goldstein, with him Suto, Power, Goldstein & Walsh, for Esther H. Behan, widow, and co-executrix and co-trustee of estate of decedent.

John C. Bane, Jr., with him Bernard J. Hampsey, John H. Scott, Jr., and Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, for Agnes Fox and Commonwealth Trust Company of Pittsburgh, trustees, and Agnes Fox and Fidelity Trust Company, trustees.

Ralph S. Snyder, Deputy Attorney General, with him Anne X. Alpern, Attorney General, for Attorney General, appellant.

Before JONES, C.J., BELL, JONES, COHEN, BOK and McBRIDE, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE BELL, March 22, 1960:

Four appeals involving various and highly technical points, were presented and argued together in this Court. Without discussing some of the technical questions raised, we shall decide the basic questions, in which all parties are interested, on their merits.

Richard J. Behan on December 29, 1949, made a valid inter vivos trust agreement with Potter Bank & Trust Company, with active duties imposed upon the trustee...

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