Art Students' League of New York v. Hinkley

(after stating the facts as above). The Art Students’ League of New York, a New York corporation, filed a bill of complaint against John Hinkley, a citizen of Maryland, and Fidelity Trust Company of Baltimore, a Maryland corporation, trustees under the will of Edward G. McDowell, in order to establish by judicial decree that a power of testamentary appointment, conferred by the will upon Edward MeDowell, the testator’s son, was validly exercised in the latter’s will. The bill asks that the trustees under the father’s will be required to account for and pay over to the complainant certain…