Cherniack v. Home National Bank & Trust Co.

The plaintiff is the widow of the defendant’s testator, whom she married in 1943 and with whom she lived until his death in 1961. There were no children of the marriage. Before and during the marriage the decedent had, through a corporation, conducted a retail clothing business in Meriden Avith his brothers.

On August 8, 1957, the decedent executed a trust indenture with the defendant bank as trustee. The decedent turned over to the trustee, as the trust corpus, nearly $200,000 worth of assets, which represented the bulk of his property. The trust indenture, which was subject to amendment or…