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GRIMM ESTATE

442 Pa. 127 (1971)

Grimm Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 18, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James S. Crawford, III, with him William J. McFate, Thorp, Reed & Armstrong, and McFate, McFate & McFate, for appellants.

Harry W. Gent, Jr., with him William J.M. Thompson, and Gent, Daniels and Thompson, for appellant.

Ira B. Coldren, Jr., and Thomas Thatcher, with them Robert M. Dale, Ralph K. Barclay, Jr., Smith, Heath, Smith & O'Haire, Dale & Woodard, and Coldren & Adams, for appellees.

Before BELL, C.J., JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS and POMEROY, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE JONES, March 18, 1971:

The issue (narrow in scope but complex in nature) presented on these appeals is: under the will and two codicils thereto of Daniel Grimm (testator), should distribution of the principal of a testamentary trust be made per stirpes or per capita among the several classes of testator's descendants. The court below — the Court of Common Pleas, Orphans' Court Division...

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