Rutherfurd v. American Security & Trust Co.

ROBB, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree in the Supreme Court of the District, construing the will of Anna Livingston Morton and instructing the trustee under that will, the American Security & Trust Company, hereinafter called the trustee, that the testatrix intended the one twenty-fourth share of the estate, the beneficial life interest in which vested under the will in Lewis Morton Rutherfurd, should vest in his brothers and sister at his death without issue, to the exclusion of his father, the appellant;

The testatrix, Mrs. Morton, when she made her will on January 15, 1916,…