Old Colony Trust Co. v. Lothrop

This is a petition by the trustee under the will of Samuel K. Lothrop for instructions as to the disposition of a trust estate. The testator died in 1886 at the age of eighty-one years leaving a will executed in 1885, which was duly proved and allowed. He established a trust by “Item Third” of his will and directed the trustees to pay the income to his widow during her life and at her decease “to pay over and distribute the principal trust fund to and among such children of mine as may be living at her death according to the Statute of Distributions made and established in this Commonwealth,…