Federal Trust Co. v. Taylor

This is an application by plaintiff as trustee under the will of Sarah Nash Hallock, deceased, to amend a portion of a final decree of the former Court of Chancery entered June 27, 1918, in a suit for construction of the decedent's will. The amendment sought is with relation to that portion of the decree which provides for distribution of the principal of the trust fund. The will itself provides for distribution of the trust estate on termination of the trust, as follows:

"Upon the death of my last surviving child, to divide among and pay over to the lawful issue of my children per stirpes and…