In re the Estate of Mandel

Harry G. Herman, S.

The decedent’s widow and a daughter, who are the coexecutrices and the cotrustees, ask the court to construe the decedent’s will to permit them to invade the corpus of the “ marital deduction ” trust to the extent of “ the whole or any portion of same ”. Subdivision “ (d) ” of article “ second ” of the will empowers the executrices and trustees “ To pay, or apply, such amount or amounts of the principal to her or for the use of my wife bay mandel at any time during her life, as in their discretion they may deem it advisable, and in exercising this discretion, my Executors…