Bank of Delaware v. Allmond

Seitz, Chancellor:

Plaintiff-trustee (“trustee”) filed this complaint for instructions as to its duties under the will of Albert T. Hanby (“testator”).

The testator, who died in 1947 while a resident of Pennsylvania, left a will which provided in pertinent part as follows:

“THIRD: All the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, real, personal or mixed, of whatsoever kind and character and wheresoever situate, I give, devise and bequeath unto my Trustee hereinafter named, to pay the income therefrom unto my wife, Cecil DeClyne Hanby, for and during the term of her natural *374life, together with…