Security Trust Co. v. Cooling

Harrington, Chancellor:

Security Trust Company, the plaintiff trustee, seeks a further construction of the *426will of Severson B. Cooling, deceased. Other questions under the same instrument were before this court in 28 Del. Ch. 303, 42 A. 2d 784.

The questions now raised are caused by the death of Severson B. Cooling, 3d, one of the two children of Severson B. Cooling, Jr., a deceased son of the testator. The Sixth and Ninth Items' contain the pertinent provisions.

By the Ninth Item, the testator bequeathed and devised the residue of his estate, both real and personal, to Security Trust Company,…