Crouch v. Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co.

Bruñe, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court/

This case calls for a construction of the will of one Samuel Winter, who died in 1892. The aid of a court of equity in construing the will was first sought in December, 1893, and the first decree construing it was entered in 1894. The present proceeding was instituted in December, 1957, by the present trustee under the will for the determination of the proper disposition of the one-sixth share of the income from the trust estate under the will which had been payable to a great-grandson of the testator, the late W. Melbourne Hart, up to the time…