Carrigan's Estate

Citations

• 68 Pa. Super. 264
• 1917 Pa. Super. LEXIS 107

Syllabus

<p>Wills — Construction,—Trust and tmistees — Income—Grandchildren sharing in income.</p> <p>Testator in his will created a trust in favor of his wife for life, and after her death in favor of his children, and after the death of the survivor of them, the estate to go to his grandchildren per stiipes. He further directed as follows: “Should any of my said children die unmarried and without lawful issue then the income share of such child deceased shall go to my remaining children for life and my grandchildren shall take such share of said deceased children as their deceased parent would be entitled to (the intention of this my last will being that my wife enjoy the income of my estate during’ her life, that my children shall enjoy said income after my wife’s death for and during their lives and that my grandchildren shall get the corpus of the estate per stirpes and not per capita).” Held, that the children of a deceased child were entitled to share in the income until the termination of the trust.</p>