Lee's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Lee's Estate, 207 Pa. 218 (Pa. 1903)
56 A. 425; 1903 Pa. LEXIS 476
Brown, Dean, Fell, Mestrezat, Potter
Lee's Estate
Opinion of the Court
The will of testator placed the bequest to his daughter in trust- for her, the trust to end in the event of the husband’s death before hers ; that event did not occur, but the marriage relation was dissolved by a decree in divorce. Evidently, the sole purpose of the trust was to protect her estate from the husband Jacob E. Blackmore; the law has severed the matrimonial bond as effectually as death could have done; therefore, the sole purpose of the trust being atan end, the daughter is entitled to the estate. So the court below on the authority of Koenig’s Appeal, 57 Pa. 352, rightly decided.
The decree is affirmed on its opinion.
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- Trust and trustees—Separate use trust—Termination of trust—Divorce— Will. Where the will of a testator places a bequest to his daughter in trust for her, the trust to end in the event of the husband’s death before hers, and the sole purpose of the trust is to protect her estate from her husband, a divorce between the daughter and her husband will end the trust.