Shaw's Estate

Opinion by

Me. Justice Baenes,

William H. Shaw died testate on January 15, 1900. We are called upon in this appeal to determine the construction of that portion of his will whereby he created a trust of $50,000 for the benefit of his family, the principal of which is now ripe for distribution. The provision of the will in question reads as follows:

“Item: I give and bequeath to the Delaware County Trust, Safe Deposit and Title Insurance Company the sum of Fifty Thousand Dollars in trust to manage and invest and pay the clear income thereof to my said wife and two sons in equal shares, and so…