Seawell v. Cheshire

The appellant states in brief filed in this Court two questions as being involved on this appeal. The first re^ds as follows: “Should the residue of the trust estate created under the will of B. S. Harrison, deceased, be now paid over to the executrix of the will of Edwin Marriott Harrison, the only son, and sole surviving heir at law of the testator, or should it be paid to the descendants and collateral heirs of persons named by the testator to take by conveyance to be made by the trustees after the death of testator’s son without lawful issue?”

This question raises the basic inquiry as to…