Steel v. Linn

Citations

• 232 Pa. 18
• 81 A. 92
• 1911 Pa. LEXIS 669

Syllabus

<p>Wills — Trusts and trustees — Rule in Shelley’s case — Dry trusts — Fee simple estate.</p> <p>Where a testator gives all his estate to his wife for life and upon her death “then all of said property to be eaquely divided between my Four Children [naming them] dureing their Natural lives then said property to be divided eauqly Among their natural Heirs, and I do hereby appoint H. the trustee of my Four Children, ” the children take a vested fee in remainder. The naming of the trustee created a dry trust which was executed by the statute so as to give to the children a legal and not an equitable estate, and the devise over being a legal estate, the two coalesced under the rule in Shelley’s case.</p>