Countiss v. Whiting

April 27,1926, Henrietta Eleanor Robinson of Greenwich, Connecticut, made a written agreement with Whiting and McEwen, as trustees, conveying to them 1649 shares of stock of the Ox Fibre Brush Company, a corporation. By its terms the trust was to last 10 years and the stock was to be returned to the donor at the end of that period if she survived thus long*. If the donor died within the period, the income from the trust estate after her death was to be paid in equal proportions to four daughters of the donor, Margaret McEwen, Frances McEwen, Laura Evans and Eleanor Whiting. In case of the…