Reade v. Continental Trust Co.

The controversy here rests between the husband, plaintiff, and the wife, defendant, as the trustee, the Continental Trust Company, interposes no objection to the relief asked for in the complaint, except as it very properly requests the court to determine its duty that it may act upderstandingly in the performance of the trust agreement.

On the 20th day of January, 1896, the plaintiff and the defendant Martha A. Reade were married, and on the third day of October in the same year the trust agreement was executed by the plaintiff to himself and Asa Bird Gardiner, Mrs. Reade not being a party.…