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Wills, Trusts & Estates Keyed to Gallanis
Bomberger’s Estates
Citation:
32 A.2d 729 (Pa. 1943)Facts
The testator’s will devised $50,000 in trust, income to his niece, Mrs. Lilly Aughinbaugh, for life, corpus on Lilly’s death to Lilly’s children. The will continued:
Should niece Lilly die without leaving a child, I order that the bequest shall be equally divided among my nephews and nieces, then living, the child or children of nieces who may be deceased to have the share their mother would have been entitled to if living.
Lilly died childless. All of the testator’s nieces and nephews predeceased Lilly. Charles, one of the nephews, had two children, both of whom survived Lilly. The other nephews died childless. Ada, one of the nieces, had eight children: seven of them survived Lilly, but one, John, died during Ada’s lifetime. Annie, the other niece, had one child, Rachel, who survived Annie but predeceased Lilly.
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