Duval's Estate

Citations

• 228 Pa. 356
• 77 A. 545
• 1910 Pa. LEXIS 489

Syllabus

<p>Will — Construction—Devise—Life estate — Trust and trustees.</p> <p>Where a testator specifically devises real estate to his daughter for life in trust and gives her a share in his residuary estate, but directs that such share “shall be held in trust for her by her already designated trustee,” the gift of the residuary estate to the daughter will be construed as a gift for life only, especially is this true where the beneficiary and all parties in interest treated it as a trust estate during the life of the daughter, a period of sixty-eight years from the creation of the trust, and where the intention not to give an absolute estate appears from the four corners of the will.-</p>