Thorndike v. Dexter

The trustees under the will of Neal Rantoul who died August 26, 1956, and whose will was admitted to probate September 17, 1956, sought instructions as to the disposition of one half of the income available for distribution under the residuary trust. The probate judge who heard the petition on the pleadings, will and codicil and certain agreed facts, entered a decree on May 7, 1959, which provided that the executors under the will of Lucy S. Thorn-dike, one of the daughters of the testator who had survived him, but who had died May 31, 1958, “are entitled to one-half of the net income which…