Robinson v. Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co.

This is a suit for the construction of a will, instituted by the trustee thereunder. The testator was Samuel LeRoy Robinson, who executed his will on February 16, 1929, and died in September, 1938. His will was admitted to probate by the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore City in November of that year. The controversy concerns the construction of Paragraph EIGHTH of the will (referred to below as “Item 8”). The trial court held that on the death in 1955 of the life tenant under Item 8, both of his children being then living and over twenty-one years old, the trust under that Item terminated and the…