Morgan's Estate
Citations
- 223 Pa. 233
- 72 A. 500
Syllabus
<p>Trusts and trustees — Spendthrift trust — Estate in fee simple — Appointment by will — Heirs at law.</p> <p>Where a married, woman by her will gives her estate, real and personal, to a trustee to hold for the benefit of her husband with the usual provisions creating a spendthrift trust, with power, however, in the husband to end the trust at any time, but if he failed to do so, to continue the trust until his death, and to deliver and convey the estate to whom ,he may appoint by will, or in default of appointment to his heirs at law, the husband takes the estate in fee, and if the trust is continued until his death the estate goes to his legatees and devisees and not to his heirs at law.</p>
Judges: Brown, Elkin, Fell, Mestrezat, Mitchell, Potter, Stewart
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