Lincoln Bank & Trust Co. v. Bailey

PALMORE, Judge.

James B. Wilder died testate in 1888, survived by two sets of grandchildren, being the five children of his deceased son, Graham Wilder, and the four children of his deceased daughter, Emma Wilder Hast. This is an action to construe paragraphs 6 and 7 of his holographic will, by which the residue of a substantial estate was left in trust for the benefit of the nine grandchildren and their descendants until 21 years after the death of the last survivor among the grandchildren, at which time the corpus is to be distributed.

All of the grandchildren are now deceased except for…