Equitable Trust Co. v. Banning

The Chancellor.

This bill calls for an interpretation of the will and codicils thereto of Mary R. Latimer, who died January 23, 1929. Her last will and testament was dated May 5, 1922. There are four codicils thereto, dated respectively February 3, 1924, June 18, 1926, June 20, 1926, May 21, 1927.

The first question presented by the bill is a group question and concerns the identity of ten legatees. Nine of these legatees are charitable institutions and the tenth one is an individual named in the will as “Samuel Small, Cousin, York, Pa.”

The institutional legatees named in the will or in the…