Woodruff v. White
New Jersey Court of Chancery
Heard on bill, answers, replications and proofs in open court. The bill in this suit is filed by the executors and trustees of the will of Absalom B. Woodruff, deceased, and its purpose is to obtain from this court instructions and directions concerning their duties as trustees. The defendants are the various persons interested in the estate of the decedent.
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Heard on bill, answers, replications and proofs in open court. The bill in this suit is filed by the executors and trustees of the will of Absalom B. Woodruff, deceased, and its purpose is to obtain from this court instructions and directions concerning their duties as trustees. The defendants are the various persons interested in the estate of the decedent. The opinion only gives the reasons for so much of the decree as counsel inform the court is to be controverted, and consequently no reference is made to numerous other questions which were raised and disposed of and from which counsel do…
1Opinion of the Court
Garrison, V. C.
To dispose of the issues raised in this suit it is necessary to construe the will of Absalom B. Woodruff, deceased. After providing for some specific bequests the will gave all the rest of the real and personal estate to the executors and trustees upon the following trusts:
*412“First. — To pay the necessary expenses of the maintenance and support of my son Howard de Wolf Woodruff, during his lifetime, or, until he has entirely recovered his mental health, in the best manner to accomplish his recovery, according to their judgment, to the extent of not exceeding three thousand…
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