Winkel v. Streicher

[57] Action to construe the trust provisions of a will and for a decree requiring the trustee to make payments plaintiff contended were required by the will. The Court construed the will contrary to plaintiff’s contentions and plaintiff appealed to the St. Louis Court of Appeals, which affirmed the decree. (Winkel v. Streicher, 287 S. W. 2d 389.) We transferred the case here on application of plaintiff.

The will to be construed is the will of Elizabeth Streicher, who was a sister of the father of plaintiff and her sister Lillie Streicher (the beneficiary of the trust involved), and was…