Legal Opinion
Smith v. Moore
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided March 22, 1965No. 9620PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WINTER, District Judge.
In this case, we must decide whether a trust created by the last will and testament of George B. West, as augmented by a trust created by the last will and testament of his sister, Missouri P. Smith, has failed and, if so, what is the proper disposition of the corpus thereof. The appeal is before us at the instance of the testator’s surviving heirs at law, two great grandnephews and a grandniece, from a determination that no rights to possession of the corpus of the trusts had arisen in favor of them, 225 F.Supp. 434 (1963).
George B. West executed a holographic last…
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