Ball v. Weightman

Citations

• 273 Pa. 120
• 116 A. 653
• 1922 Pa. LEXIS 530

Syllabus

<p>Will — Construction—Trusts and trustees — Spendthrift trust— Oreat-grandchildren. .</p> <p>1. The term “grandchildren” may or may not embrace great-grandchildren according to the meaning of the testator to be ascertained from an examination of the entire will.</p> <p>2. Where a spendthrift trust embraces the entire income of testator’s estate, and is to continue until the death of the last surviving child, and testator uses the words “grandchildren,” “issue” and “descendants” indiscriminately, and his manifest purpose is to secure the income for the personal use of the descendants during the life of the trust, the word grandchildren will be construed to include great-grandchildren.</p>