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· 2/3/1896

Weinbrenner's Estate

Citations

  • 173 Pa. 440
  • 34 A. 215
  • 1896 Pa. LEXIS 726

Syllabus

<p>Wills — Tnist and trustees — Perpetuities.</p> <p>A will creating a trust for two of testator’s grandchildren and then providing for a limitation over “inease either of my said grandchildren shall happen to die, whether in my lifetime or after my death, without leaving any child or the issue of any deceased child living at their death, or if leaving such child or issue, all of them shall die under the age of twenty-one years without issue,” does not violate the rule against perpetuities, inasmuch as the contingencies must happen, if at all, within twenty-one years after the end of a life which was in being at the death of the testator.</p>

Judges: Dean, Fell, Green, McCollum, Mitchell, Sterrett, Williams

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