Storb Appeal

Opinion by

Mb. Justice Benjamin R. Jones,

This appeal presents for our determination the question whether the words “lawful issue” in a certain life insurance trust agreement include a child adopted by the settlor’s daughter subsequent to the execution of the agreement in 1936 but prior to the settlor’s death in 1958.

On May 19, 1936 Osborne H. Cilley (herein called Cilley) was the father of two children, Donald L. Cilley, then aged 24 years, and Ruth E. Cilley, then aged 19 years, both children having been born of a marriage between Cilley and Blanche E. Cilley. The record indicates that Cilley…