In re the Accounting of Chemical Bank New York Trust Co.

This is a proceeding by Chemical Bank New York Trust Company to settle its account as successor trustee under an indenture of trust dated June 4, 1918 between Francis Edward Bliss, as grantor, Ethel Cicely Mahony, his intended wife as party of the second part, and James Howard Bliss and Robert Stanley Patterson, as trustees. The agreement was in the nature of a marriage settlement, was executed by all the parties in London, England, where all the parties to the agreement then resided. The grantor and Ethel Cicely Mahony were subsequently married.

In 1929, preparatory to moving their residence…