In re the Estate of Lyman

Foley, S.

In this trustee’s accounting various questions are presented as to the construction of the will and of a marital settlement agreement entered into between the testator and his former wife.

On November 30, 1920, Marguerite B. C. Lyman, the then wife of the testator, obtained a judgment of divorce against him. Thereafter on February 2, 1921, he entered into a settlement agreement with her. He died on April 7, 1926. Under the agreement the testator obligated himself to make certain annual payments to his divorced wife during her life or until she remarried when all payments to her were…