Stinchcomb v. Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co.

In writing this opinion we find sustenance in the aphorism that, “No will has a twin brother,” 1 and hence the improbability that we shall soon again encounter a testamentary document of similar import.

Mercantile-Safe Deposit and Trust Company (Mercantile), one of the appellees, as Substituted Trustee under the will of Frederick Schoenherr, deceased, filed a bill of complaint in the Circuit Court of Baltimore City for the construction of his will. This required the joining as defendants the remaindermen of the trust created by *484items second through eleventh of the will. Among the defendants…