Mercantile Trust & Savings Bank v. Rogers

Ella A. Rogers died on February 22, 1952, leaving a will which was duly admitted to probate in the county court of Adams county. The will, after providing for a number of specific bequests directed that the real estate be sold for cash and the remainder of the estate, including the proceeds of the sale of the real estate, be held in trust by the executors who were also designated as trustees. The trust set up was for the payment of the income from the estate to her sister Isabel Rogers Wellman, during her natural life and at her death to be distributed among the heirs. The will named the…