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· 1/3/1922

Porter v. Wolf

Citations

  • 272 Pa. 93
  • 116 A. 55
  • 1922 Pa. LEXIS 781

Syllabus

<p>Will — Changes therein — Oral instructions to executors — Trusts and trustees — Interest in property — Equity.</p> <p>An oral promise made by executors to testator to carry out certain changes which he desired to make in his will, and which he could not make by a new will or codicil because of his weakened physical condition, is not enforceable as a trust impressed upon testator’s property, where the will gives the executors no interest therein.</p>

Judges: Frazer, Kephart, Moschzisker, Sadler, Schaffer, Walling

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