Peoples National Bank v. Barlow

Sttjkes, Chief Justice.

This action was brought by the executor and trustee for the construction of the will of Mrs. Gertrude H. Matthews, of Easley, who died in 1957, leaving of force her will dated February 7, 1951. She was an aged, childless widow and bequeathed the bulk of her considerable personal estate to the trustee for the benefit of nephews and nieces and grandnephews and grandnieces.

The will directed, in substance, that the trust estate be divided into fifteen equal parts, with preceding life estates as to some of them, and that the respective shares of the corpus be paid to the…