Atwood v. King

WALLER, Circuit Judge.

Mrs. Henrietta M. King, the owner of a ranch empire in Texas, in excess of one million acres, made a will wherein seven trustees were authorized, with exceedingly broad powers,1 to control and manage her estate. One of the objects of her solicitude and bounty was a grandson, Richard W. Atwood, a person non compos mentis. The main trust estate created by the will was to be continued for a period of ten years from the death of the testatrix, whereupon the trustees were to make partition among the devisees of the residue of the estate that had come into their hands. Richard…