Court Opinion

ID: 6262235
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-02-17 22:11:49.165493+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:59:44.329276
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NIX, Justice,
concurring.
I agree with Mr. Justice Kauffman that a strict reading of our decision in Schede Estate, 426 Pa. 93, 231 A.2d 135 (1967) would force the conclusion that the power was not effectively exercised. However, I believe the majority has elected the wise course of not being bound by the rigidity of Schede Estate, supra. Limitations on the manner of the exercise of a power of appointment should be recognized only where a legitimate purpose is obtained by the insistence upon literal compliance. Such was not the case here.