Portland Trust & Savings Bank v. Gallin

This is an appeal by Lucille Gallin, one of the five defendants, from a decree of the Circuit Court, which held that $1,491.41 was the entire sum payable to her upon the final distribution of a trust which her father, Edward T. Johnson, now deceased, established and which the plaintiff-respondent, Portland Trust and Savings Bank, administered as trustee. The purpose of the suit was to secure a decree holding that $1,491.41, which the trust company tendered the appellant before filing the suit, was the sum due her.

The trust was established by the last will and testament of the aforementioned…