Burns v. First National Bank

delivered.the opinion of the court:

George R. McClester, of Plainfield, in Will county, died on June 7, 1918, leaving a last will and testament, by which, after providing for the payment of funeral expenses, he disposed of his estate as follows: He gave $200 to the Plainfield Cemetery Association for the up-keep of his burial lot, and all the remainder of his property he devised and bequeathed to the Woodruff Trust Company under an active trust to invest and re-invest and to pay to the plaintiff in error, Ellen E. Burns, $30 per month during her natural life, and upon her. death to secure a…