Hayes v. St. Louis Union Trust Co.

This is a suit to construe a trust declared in the will of Joseph M. Hayes, who died a citizen and resident of St. Louis on January 14, 1919. The plaintiffs are three of his children, together with the divorced wife and the widow-administratrix of another child who died after the institution of the suit. The defendants are the testamentary trustees and the testator's remaining living children and his grandchildren — the latter all minors and children of a living daughter. The answers of all of them joined in praying a construction of the will.

The will placed the testator's residuary estate in…