Security Trust Co. v. Bradley

This is an action by plaintiff, as trustee, for a final accounting and decree of distribution of .the corpus of the trust. In view of the complete admissions in the answers, the complaint may be considered as the equivalent of an agreed statement of facts.

The trust has been recently terminated by the death of the life tenant, and the problem now presented to the court relates to the ownership of the corpus. This necessitates a judicial construction of an indenture of release or assignment of the remainder predicated upon the life estate.

Esther A. Patrie died a resident of Cayuga county on…