Cross v. United States Trust Co.

This action is brought to obtain a judicial construction of certain provisions of the will of Fhebe Jane Cross, deceased, which creates certain trusts in the defendant over $700,000 of railroad mortgage bonds, now in the hands of the trust company. The testator had her domicile in Rhode Island. She made her will there, and it is in all its provisions valid by the law of that state. When the testatrix died, in 1878, her will was probated in Rhode Island, and for seven years the plaintiff executors themselves administered these trusts under the supervision of the courts of that state. It is…