Putnam v. Lincoln Safe Deposit Co.

By the will of Robert M. Shoemaker, of Cincinnati, Ohio, who died in the year 1885, there was bequeathed to John R. Pfitnam, as trustee, a substantial portion of his estate, to have and to. hold the same, to the use of Mary Steiner Putnam for life, and to pay over the same to her children upon her decease. Mary Steiner Putnam was the daughter of the testator and the wife of John R. Putnam, the trastee. In fulfillment of this bequest, securities of the par value of more than $175,000 were, in *581the years 1887 and 1888, delivered over to John R. Putnam hy the Shoemaker executors. John R. Putnam…