In Re the Accounting of Hale

By the sixth clause of his will Justus Miller provided that the residue of his estate should be held in trust and that the income therefrom should be paid in equal shares to his widow and to his son during their lives. In the event that the son without issue should predecease the widow, he devised and bequeathed by the seventh clause one-half of the trust estate to the widow and the other half to such named nephews and nieces as might survive the son. Among the four executors and trustees appointed by the will were William P. Hale and the widow, Elizabeth Miller. In 1897 the will was probated…