Cotton v. Bank of California

This is an appeal from a decree rendered in an equitable action brought to construe the will of Rebecca Cecelia Cotton, grand-mother of the minor respondent, and giving certain directions and instructions, to the appellánt as trustee under the will.

That portion of the will in question pertinent to this issue consists of items m and IV of the said will, which are as follows:

“Item in

“I direct that my executor pay the sum of. seventy-five dollars a month to my sister Kate Robertson, of Detroit, Michigan, and of the City of "Washington, if living, out of the .net proceeds of the income of my…