Estate of Adams v. Vermuele

The following opinion was filed June 26, 1934:

Fairchild, J.

The statute under which the respondents seek relief is an attempt to enable a beneficiary of a trust to meet an emergency in the matter of maintaining himself. It provides that every act of the trustees in contravention of the trust shall be absolutely void, but that a beneficiary whose maintenance is not sufficiently provided for by the trust, and *79who is unable to take care of himself, may have the appropriation and application of so much of the trust fund or income thereof as the court having jurisdiction may deem necessary or…