Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co. v. Hodgkin

This is a bill in equity in which the complainant, trustee under the will of William L. Beckwith late of Providence, deceased, asks for instructions as to the distribution of the trust property now held by it in trust.

By the terms of the trust, which are essential to the matter before us, the trustee is directed to apply the net income of the trust estate for the support and maintenance of the testator’s mother and the testator’s daughter, Lorania C. Beckwith. The testator’s mother predeceased his daughter, and the will provides that in such event the trustee shall pay the net income of the…