Sollers v. Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co.

This case poses a narrow question: in making a stirpital distribution of the remainder of a testamentary trust among the decendants of the persons who had received the income for life, are the stirpes, or stocks, to be found among those who had the equitable life estates,' or among the remaindermen, who are the first takers ?

Albert Brown died domiciled in Baltimore in 1963. By the terms of his will, drawn in 1927, after making provision for his wife (who did not survive him) and his descendants (he had none) the residue of his estate was to be held by Safe Deposit and Trust Company, now…