Schuldt's Estate

Citations

• 199 Pa. 58
• 48 A. 879
• 1901 Pa. LEXIS 559

Syllabus

<p>Will—Remainder—Vested and contingent estates—“ Surviving grandchüdren.”</p> <p>Where a fund is given by will to a trustee in trust to pay the income to the testator’s widow during her life, and at her decease in trust for grandchildren named, “the interest thereof to be paid to them semi-annually until they have reached the age of twenty-one years, when the said principal sum shall be equally divided amongst my surviving grandchildren, share and share alike,” the intent of the testator is that the fund shall vest in such of his surviving children only as shall attain the age of twenty-one years. In such a case it vests indefeasibly in the class when one of them attains the required age.</p>