Brookings v. Mississippi Valley Trust Co.

Action to construe the will of Jemima Lindell, deceased. The specific purpose is to require respondent Mississippi Valley Trust Company, successor trustee under the will, to charge taxes and other expenses of unproductive real estate against the corpus of the trust estate created by the will, and not against the income derived from trust property as a whole. Plaintiff (appellant) has a life estate in the net income of the trust property. There was a suit commenced by Sylvia, Inc., a tenant of one of the unproductive parcels of real estate in the trust, for damages resulting from rain because…