McGlinn's Estate

Citations

• 77 Pa. Super. 582
• 1921 Pa. Super. LEXIS 322

Syllabus

<p>¡Wills — Construction—Income for years — Tested estate.</p> <p>A testator gave to Ms executors a large number of shares of stock of two corporations “in trust to collect the dividends accruing thereon and pay over the same in equal shares” to his sons and daughters, naming them, “or to the issue of any of them who may be dead leaving issue, per stirpes, until the expiration of five years from the date of my death,” etc., etc. Among the children named to whom was given the income accruing from the stock designated was a daughter Annie. • She survived the testator, but died within the period of five years after his death leaving no issue to survive her.</p> <p>Held: That the daughter took a vested estate in her share of the income arising from the trust fund during the -period of five years, and that the same was properly awarded to her personal representative.</p>