4 Sadler 126
Decided November 15, 1886
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1886-11-15
October Term, 1886, No. 225, W. D. Appeal from a decree of the Orphans’ Court of Allegheny County directing a trustee to transfer and assign to a cesiui que trust cash and securities of the trust At the audit of the account of J. Morrow Arnold, trustee under the will of James H. Brown, deceased, Mary A. Harper, the cestui que trust, came into court and requested the transfer to her absolutely of that portion of the estate in the hands of J. Morrow Arnold, trustee, alleging…
Affirmed · Decided 1886-11-15
¶1As the bequest in this case vested in Mary A. Harper not only the equitable but legal title in the stocks and bonds bequeathed, the trust, if indeed it can be regarded as such, was executed in the donee at the time of its creation; hence the trustee had nothing whatever in the subject-matter of it.
¶2The decree is affirmed and the appeal dismissed, at the costs of the appellant.