Douglass v. Safe Deposit & Trust Co.

In 1859 Robert Graham Dun purchased a business which from that time to- the time of his death in 1900 he operated, enlarged, and developed, under the name of R. G. Dun & Company, or the Mercantile Agency. He. left a will by which the business .was directed to be managed by four trustees, the income or profits therefrom to be paid to his widow during her life. The term of this testamentary trust was during the lifetime of his widow, Mary B. Dun,- and for a period of one year after her death. The testamentary trustees were Robert Dun Douglass (the plaintiff below and appellant here), Francis L.…