IN RE ESTATE OF TOWER


463 Pa. 93 (1975)

343 A.2d 671

In re ESTATE of Charlemagne TOWER, Deceased. Appeal of Tripp TOWER and Annette Tower Ragsdale.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided July 7, 1975.

Rehearing Denied September 16, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lewis H. Van Dusen, Jr., Philadelphia, for appellants.

William H.S. Wells, Herbert S. Riband, Jr., Philadelphia, for appellees, the Fidelity Bank, and others, Trustees U/W, and others.

Before JONES, C.J., and EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, NIX and MANDERINO, JJ.


OPINION

JONES, Chief Justice.

Charlemagne Tower, a resident of Philadelphia, died on July 24, 1889. He left a will dated May 21, 1889, by which he put his residuary estate in trust for the benefit of his family. The trust is to run for a period of twenty-one years beyond the death of the survivor of a group comprising testator's five children and five grandchildren who were living at his death.

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