Court Opinion

ID: 6378160
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-06-24 23:57:29.68167+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:50:15.493198
License: Public Domain

Van Dusen, J.,
At the time of testator’s death the stock in question had an intact value of $70.39 per share. Rights to subscribe to additional shares at $80 were issued. Before the issue, the old stock had a book value of $77.94. After the issue all the stock, new and old, had a book value of $79.25 — a gain of $1.31 per share, resulting from the application of the premium.of $2.06 to old and new stock proportionately. These rights were sold by the trustee, and all the proceeds were awarded to income, inasmuch as the transaction did not impair the intact value at the time of testator’s death: Jones v. Integrity Trust Co., 292 Pa. 149; Burton’s Estate, 12 D. & C. 605.
The guardian ad litem for minor remaindermen makes a claim for a portion of these proceeds which needs only to be plainly stated to answer itself. He says- that there has been a contribution of new capital which should be added to the intact value and preserved for principal. This may be so in part. If it is, the amount of the increase remains with the stock, which the *204trustees still hold for principal account. It is part of the $80 which was paid in, and is not in the proceeds of sale of rights which is going out. No reason can be imagined for adding an additional sum to principal out of the proceeds of the sale of rights, which, in the instant ease, must be income because the intact value, plus undistributed earnings plus the premium, is unimpaired.
The exceptions are dismissed and the adjudication is confirmed absolutely.