City Bank Farmers Trust Co. v. Lewis

The will of Frederic E. Lewis, a resident of Ridgefield, who died February 26th, 1919, was dated February 13th, 1919, and admitted to probate March 27th, 1919. It gave all of the testator’s property, after payment of debts, taxes, and certain legacies, to trustees to hold, invest and keep invested for the use and benefit of his wife and two sons, during their lives, under detailed provisions not important to the present inquiry, except as hereinafter stated. One of the named trustees declined to accept the trust and the testator’s widow was appointed substitute trustee. In 1934 the other…