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Lockhart's Estate

Citations

  • 267 Pa. 390
  • 111 A. 254
  • 1920 Pa. LEXIS 873

Syllabus

<p>Wills — Trusts and trustees — Active trust — Violation of rule against perpetuities — Time to raise question.</p> <p>Where a testatrix creates a valid trust for life, the trust fund will be paid over to the trustee at the audit of the executor’s account, even if the ultimate disposition of her estate transgresses the rule against perpetuities. The proper time to raise the question as to the alleged violation of the rule, will be upon the death of the life tenant.</p>

Judges: Brown, Kephart, Moschzisker, Simpson, Walling

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