Legal Opinion
Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. v. Bowers
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 4, 1938No. 331, 332PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.
William Waldorf Astor died at Brighton, England, on October 18, 1919, at seventy-one years of age. On May 25, 1916, he had created a trust in favor of his two sons and their issue in all of the American securities he then possessed which at that time were of the value of $23,641,-262.14, and on January 2, 1917, executed American and English wills. The American will contained a testamentary trust of his residuary estate consisting almost wholly of New York City real estate of the value at the time of his death of $46,421,545. This real estate became the subject…
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