Rand v. Bank of California

This suit was brought by the administrator c.t.a. of the estate of Anna Marie McCormick Gray to obtain a construction of decedent’s will. Michael and Patrick McCormick, decedent’s two minor nephews, who were beneficiaries under the will, appeal. The other defendants have not appealed.

Decedent died on December 24, 1959, two months after she executed her will. The will, having been drafted by the decedent herself, is ambiguous in several particulars. She created a trust to carry out, at least in part, her principal dispositive design, which included the education of her nephews, the payment of…