Shepherd v. Peratino

WILBUR K. MILLER, Circuit Judge.

When Azemia Shepherd executed her will on March 14, 1915, she had three living sons and one grandson, who was the child of a fourth son, then dead. The three sons, A. M. Shepherd, W. J. Shepherd and R. D. Shepherd, and the grandson, Henry, survived when Mrs. Shepherd died in October, 1915.

The second paragraph of the will, the pertinent portion of which is reproduced in the margin 1 because it gave rise to this lit igation, required the executors to place with a trust company of their choice not more than twenty-five per cent and not less than twenty per cent of…