Stifel v. Butcher

ON MOTION OF PLAINTIFFS-RESPONDENTS TRUSTEES FOR MODIFICATION OF OPINION OR FOR REHEARING

The trustees, by motion for modification of the foregoing opinion, have urged that the question of the right of adopted children to share in the income of the trust, under Clause Sixteenth, be resolved. The motion states that Thomas P. Butcher, the adoptive father of two adopted children, and a current income beneficiary, is now 67 years of age and that, in the event of his death, the trustees would be confronted with the question of the inclusion of his adopted children as his “descendants,” under Clause…