In re the Construction of the Will of Coolidge

Robert W. Bascom, S.

We are called upon to construe article Fourth of the will of Eleanor W. Coolidge, deceased, relative to the investment powers of the trustees thereunder. The will, after disposing of certain chattels, gives and devises the residue *942in trust to William L. Pay son, a lawyer of Boston, Massachusetts, and Fiduciary Trust Company, a Massachusetts corporation, for the benefit of the several children of the testatrix, with remainder to their issue. The paragraph, of which construction is asked, insofar as material, reads as follows:

“ I give to my said trustees and to any trustee…