Gardner v. Masteller

The question here presented is the correct interpretation of a will in which a power vested in the testator is executed.

Katherine A. Gardner is hereinafter referred to as the mother, her deceased son, Edgar B. Gardner, as decedent, and his daughter, Marguerite Katherine Gardner, as the daughter.

May 13, 1926, the mother created a trust whose indenture provided that the income therefrom should he paid decedent during his lifetime, and that he should have power to dispose of the corpus, amounting to approximately $150,000, by will. December 1, 1927, he executed a will providing for the payment…