Hanlon v. Martin

Citations

• 234 Pa. 55
• 82 A. 1024
• 1912 Pa. LEXIS 609

Syllabus

<p>Trusts and trustees — Dry trust — Deed—Estate in fee simple.</p> <p>Where a person conveys land by a deed to a trustee in trust for the use of the grantor’s wife “for and during her natural life so that she shall have the rents, issues and profits thereof and from and after the decease of the said” wife, “in trust for the use of the heirs of the body of said” wife by the said grantor “begotten or to be begotten forever,” the wife and her children by the grantor, after the latter’s death, may execute a valid mortgage of the land, inasmuch as the trust has become a dry trust and the legal title has become executed in the grantor’s wife.</p>