Bringhurst's Estate

Citations

• 257 Pa. 515
• 101 A. 765
• 1917 Pa. LEXIS 769

Syllabus

<p>Wills — Construction — Devise to-married woman — Creation of seym-ate use trust — Intention.</p> <p>Where a testatrix devised her residuary estate to her daughter “to be for her sole separate and exclusive use notwithstanding any coverture free and clear of interruption intervention or control of her Husband or any Husband she may have and without the said property and Estate shall be held and used and enjoyed by (the daughter) in all respects and in as full and ample a manner notwithstanding her coverture as if she were sole and unmarried,” the main intent was that a trust should be created for the daughter’s separate and exclusive use, and a petition to vacate the appointment of the trustee filed during the lifetime of the daughter’s husband, was properly dismissed.</p>